The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... most proming of any under his care , cannot now be known ; but , it feems , that at Johnfon's return to Lichfield , he was not received into the fchool of that city ; on the contrary , I am in- formed , by a perion who was his fchool ...
... most proming of any under his care , cannot now be known ; but , it feems , that at Johnfon's return to Lichfield , he was not received into the fchool of that city ; on the contrary , I am in- formed , by a perion who was his fchool ...
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Sir John Hawkins. verted , and sometimes their patrons and profelytes became their most inveterate perfecutors : their hard- ships were increased by civil commotions , and all their expectations were clouded by the death of the Empe- ror ...
Sir John Hawkins. verted , and sometimes their patrons and profelytes became their most inveterate perfecutors : their hard- ships were increased by civil commotions , and all their expectations were clouded by the death of the Empe- ror ...
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... most remote parts of the literary world . Hiftories of the learned men of mo- dern times , and short abridgments of their works , as also such pieces as for their brevity required fome vehicle to convey them to pofterity , it has been ...
... most remote parts of the literary world . Hiftories of the learned men of mo- dern times , and short abridgments of their works , as also such pieces as for their brevity required fome vehicle to convey them to pofterity , it has been ...
الصفحة 31
... most part , men whofe indigent circumstances compelled them to live in the suburbs and most obscure parts of the town ; Grub- ftreet then abounded with mean and old houses , which were let out in lodgings , at low rents , to perfons of ...
... most part , men whofe indigent circumstances compelled them to live in the suburbs and most obscure parts of the town ; Grub- ftreet then abounded with mean and old houses , which were let out in lodgings , at low rents , to perfons of ...
الصفحة 39
... fmall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to purfue his D4 private private studies and amusements , which , for the most DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a fine tragedy-writer; and...
... fmall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to purfue his D4 private private studies and amusements , which , for the most DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a fine tragedy-writer; and...
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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.