The works of Samuel Johnson, المجلد 71824 |
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... sometimes with contempt and sometimes with abhorrence . In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so provoking to that irritable nation , that re- solving " not to be offended with impunity , " the Scotch Lords in a body ...
... sometimes with contempt and sometimes with abhorrence . In this pamphlet the Scotch were mentioned in terms so provoking to that irritable nation , that re- solving " not to be offended with impunity , " the Scotch Lords in a body ...
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... sometimes wished to visit England , but always found some reason of delay . He tells Pope , in the decline of life , that he hopes once more to see him ; " but if not , " says he , we must part as all human beings have parted . " 66 ...
... sometimes wished to visit England , but always found some reason of delay . He tells Pope , in the decline of life , that he hopes once more to see him ; " but if not , " says he , we must part as all human beings have parted . " 66 ...
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... Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at concealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure His lines to Fenton , corners . Serehe , the sting of pain thy thoughts beguile , And make ...
... Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at concealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure His lines to Fenton , corners . Serehe , the sting of pain thy thoughts beguile , And make ...
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... sometimes to stroll to the play- house : and was so delighted with theatrical exhi- bitions , that he formed a kind of play from " Ogil- by's Iliad , " with some verses of his own intermix- ed , which he persuaded his school - fellows ...
... sometimes to stroll to the play- house : and was so delighted with theatrical exhi- bitions , that he formed a kind of play from " Ogil- by's Iliad , " with some verses of his own intermix- ed , which he persuaded his school - fellows ...
الصفحة 53
... curiosity must be contented with confused , imperfect , and sometimes improba- ble intelligence . Pope , finding little advantage from external help , resolved thenceforward to di- rect himself , and at twelve formed a plan of F 3 POPE .
... curiosity must be contented with confused , imperfect , and sometimes improba- ble intelligence . Pope , finding little advantage from external help , resolved thenceforward to di- rect himself , and at twelve formed a plan of F 3 POPE .
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الصفحة 203 - Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms—
الصفحة 65 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
الصفحة 260 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
الصفحة 41 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
الصفحة 225 - ... as books or conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their "race," a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
الصفحة 223 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
الصفحة 118 - His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause.
الصفحة 127 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
الصفحة 196 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
الصفحة 148 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.