The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears ftronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit : it commends the unaffect- ed fimplicity of the original ...
... mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears ftronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit : it commends the unaffect- ed fimplicity of the original ...
الصفحة 30
... mentioned , for the purpose of insurance from fire , which , from the badge affumed by them , obtained the denomination of the Sun - fire - Office , and is ftill fubfifting in a flourishing ftate . One of the managing perfons in this ...
... mentioned , for the purpose of insurance from fire , which , from the badge affumed by them , obtained the denomination of the Sun - fire - Office , and is ftill fubfifting in a flourishing ftate . One of the managing perfons in this ...
الصفحة 33
... mentioned . C With this perfon he married , his age being then about twenty - feven . Her fortune , which is conjectured to have been about eight hundred pounds , placed him in a state of affluence , to which before he had been a ...
... mentioned . C With this perfon he married , his age being then about twenty - feven . Her fortune , which is conjectured to have been about eight hundred pounds , placed him in a state of affluence , to which before he had been a ...
الصفحة 34
... mentioned city , a very refpectable gentleman , Mr. Gilbert Walmsley , register of the ecclefiaftical court of the bifhop thereof , to whose house , in his fchool and alfo in his university vacations , Johnson was a welcome guest : the ...
... mentioned city , a very refpectable gentleman , Mr. Gilbert Walmsley , register of the ecclefiaftical court of the bifhop thereof , to whose house , in his fchool and alfo in his university vacations , Johnson was a welcome guest : the ...
الصفحة 39
... mentioned , they , on horse - back , arrived in town together . • Dear Sir , Lichfield , March 2 . I had the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but cannot fay , I had a greater < affection for you upon it , than I had ...
... mentioned , they , on horse - back , arrived in town together . • Dear Sir , Lichfield , March 2 . I had the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but cannot fay , I had a greater < affection for you upon it , than I had ...
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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.