The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... , and died of an apoplexy and palfy a fhort time before the revolution . A curious delineation of his person and character may be seen in the volume above cited , ber , 4 1 16 ber , 1729 , when , as DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 15.
... , and died of an apoplexy and palfy a fhort time before the revolution . A curious delineation of his person and character may be seen in the volume above cited , ber , 4 1 16 ber , 1729 , when , as DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 15.
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... person : he , therefore , in 1736 , made overtures to the Rev. Mr. Budworth , then mafter of the grammar fchool at Brerewood , in Staffordshire , and who had been bred under Mr. Blackwall , at Market Bofworth , to become his affiftant ...
... person : he , therefore , in 1736 , made overtures to the Rev. Mr. Budworth , then mafter of the grammar fchool at Brerewood , in Staffordshire , and who had been bred under Mr. Blackwall , at Market Bofworth , to become his affiftant ...
الصفحة 41
... person of great credit with him , undertook to repre- sent to him the great danger to which he lay expofed by the indulgence of his paffion : he called to his re- membrance the characters , actions , and atchievements of many of his ...
... person of great credit with him , undertook to repre- sent to him the great danger to which he lay expofed by the indulgence of his paffion : he called to his re- membrance the characters , actions , and atchievements of many of his ...
الصفحة 46
... person being a lover of angling , wrote pifcatory eclogues ; and was a candidate for the fifty pound prize mentioned in Johnson's first letter to Cave , and for other prizes which Cave engaged to pay him who should write the best poem ...
... person being a lover of angling , wrote pifcatory eclogues ; and was a candidate for the fifty pound prize mentioned in Johnson's first letter to Cave , and for other prizes which Cave engaged to pay him who should write the best poem ...
الصفحة 58
... person than from you , who have fo much distinguished yourself by your generous encouragement of poetry , and whose judgment of that art , nothing but your commenda- • tion of my trifle can give me any occafion to call in queftion . I ...
... person than from you , who have fo much distinguished yourself by your generous encouragement of poetry , and whose judgment of that art , nothing but your commenda- • tion of my trifle can give me any occafion to call in queftion . I ...
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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.