The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be ...
... translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be ...
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... translator of this work would be difputable ; it has fcarce a feature refembling him : the language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . These circumftan ...
... translator of this work would be difputable ; it has fcarce a feature refembling him : the language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . These circumftan ...
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... translate out of his introduction . They then proceed to Erafmus , reading him with Clarke's tranflation . These books form the first class . Class II . Read Eutropius and Cornelius Nepos , or Justin with the tranflation . The first ...
... translate out of his introduction . They then proceed to Erafmus , reading him with Clarke's tranflation . These books form the first class . Class II . Read Eutropius and Cornelius Nepos , or Justin with the tranflation . The first ...
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... translating from the Latin claffics , particularly Ovid and Horace : from the latter of thefe he rendered into English verfe , with better success than any that had before attempted it , the odes Quis multa gracilis te puer in rofa ...
... translating from the Latin claffics , particularly Ovid and Horace : from the latter of thefe he rendered into English verfe , with better success than any that had before attempted it , the odes Quis multa gracilis te puer in rofa ...
الصفحة 57
... translation of Du Halde's History of China , which was never completed . 4 Johnson thinking him a man for his purpose , made him an offer of his poem , in a letter in which , with great art , but without the least violation of truth ...
... translation of Du Halde's History of China , which was never completed . 4 Johnson thinking him a man for his purpose , made him an offer of his poem , in a letter in which , with great art , but without the least violation of truth ...
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الصفحة 558 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
الصفحة 153 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
الصفحة 491 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
الصفحة 196 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
الصفحة 34 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
الصفحة 184 - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
الصفحة 60 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
الصفحة 433 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
الصفحة 168 - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
الصفحة 195 - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.