The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... also a talent for Latin verfification , by fuch compofitions as few of his standing could equal . Mr. Jordan taking advan → tage , therefore , of a tranfgreffion of this his pupil , the absenting himself from early prayers , imposed on ...
... also a talent for Latin verfification , by fuch compofitions as few of his standing could equal . Mr. Jordan taking advan → tage , therefore , of a tranfgreffion of this his pupil , the absenting himself from early prayers , imposed on ...
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... also such pieces as for their brevity required fome vehicle to convey them to pofterity , it has been the practice of foreign countries , in their memoirs , and of universities and academies , in their acts and tranfactions , to give ...
... also such pieces as for their brevity required fome vehicle to convey them to pofterity , it has been the practice of foreign countries , in their memoirs , and of universities and academies , in their acts and tranfactions , to give ...
الصفحة 31
... also rendered famous by having been the dwelling - place of Mr. Henry Welby , a gentleman of whom it is related in a printed nar- rative that he lived there forty years without being feen of any . or or immoral books and pamphlets , as ...
... also rendered famous by having been the dwelling - place of Mr. Henry Welby , a gentleman of whom it is related in a printed nar- rative that he lived there forty years without being feen of any . or or immoral books and pamphlets , as ...
الصفحة 32
... also a physician ; the former af- fumed the name Bavius , and the latter Mævius . Its first publication was in January , 1730 , and it meeting with encouragement , Cave projected an improvement there- on in a pamphlet of his own , and ...
... also a physician ; the former af- fumed the name Bavius , and the latter Mævius . Its first publication was in January , 1730 , and it meeting with encouragement , Cave projected an improvement there- on in a pamphlet of his own , and ...
الصفحة 34
... also a friend of captain Garrick , who had for fome time been refident at Lichfield , and , by con- fequence , of Mr. David Garrick , his fon . His cha- racter is fo well pourtrayed by Johnson , and represents in fuch lively colours his ...
... also a friend of captain Garrick , who had for fome time been refident at Lichfield , and , by con- fequence , of Mr. David Garrick , his fon . His cha- racter is fo well pourtrayed by Johnson , and represents in fuch lively colours his ...
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الصفحة 550 - 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 throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
الصفحة 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
الصفحة 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
الصفحة 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
الصفحة 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
الصفحة 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
الصفحة 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
الصفحة 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
الصفحة 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
الصفحة 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.