The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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... tion , could scarcely have failed to distinguish him , and to have raised him to the highest honours of that lucra- tive profeffion ; but , whatever nature might have in- tended for him , fortune feems to have been the arbiter of his ...
... tion , could scarcely have failed to distinguish him , and to have raised him to the highest honours of that lucra- tive profeffion ; but , whatever nature might have in- tended for him , fortune feems to have been the arbiter of his ...
الصفحة 30
... tion misleads me not , a man of the name of Povey , who , by the way , was a great improver of that useful project , the Penny Post , * and died within my memory . Having a fcheming head , a plaufible tongue , and a ready pen , he ...
... tion misleads me not , a man of the name of Povey , who , by the way , was a great improver of that useful project , the Penny Post , * and died within my memory . Having a fcheming head , a plaufible tongue , and a ready pen , he ...
الصفحة 40
... tion , or that , at times , he should find entertainment in turning over Knolles's voluminous and neglected his- tory of the Turks . In the many hours of leisure which he may be faid rather to have endured than enjoyed , we must suppose ...
... tion , or that , at times , he should find entertainment in turning over Knolles's voluminous and neglected his- tory of the Turks . In the many hours of leisure which he may be faid rather to have endured than enjoyed , we must suppose ...
الصفحة 44
... tion of that book is fo much revived in England , that , it is prefumed , a new translation of it from the Italian , together with Le Courayer's notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable recep- < tion . · < If it be ...
... tion of that book is fo much revived in England , that , it is prefumed , a new translation of it from the Italian , together with Le Courayer's notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable recep- < tion . · < If it be ...
الصفحة 45
... tion . с Suppofe the merit of the verfions equal , we may < hope that the addition of the notes will turn the < balance in our favour , confidering the reputation of the Annotator . < C Be pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if ...
... tion . с Suppofe the merit of the verfions equal , we may < hope that the addition of the notes will turn the < balance in our favour , confidering the reputation of the Annotator . < C Be pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if ...
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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.