The works of Samuel Johnson, المجلد 71824 |
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... sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encourage- ment to men whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who ...
... sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encourage- ment to men whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who ...
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... sufficient kindness the ne- phew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they conversed together , so much pleased , that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to King William , who some- times visited ...
... sufficient kindness the ne- phew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they conversed together , so much pleased , that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to King William , who some- times visited ...
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... sufficient use was not made of the ardour of the nation ; they called loudly for more changes , and stronger efforts ; and demanded the punishment of part , and the dismission of the rest , * Mr. Sheridan however says , that Addison's ...
... sufficient use was not made of the ardour of the nation ; they called loudly for more changes , and stronger efforts ; and demanded the punishment of part , and the dismission of the rest , * Mr. Sheridan however says , that Addison's ...
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... sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were conti- nued in their places . But every man of ...
... sufficiently diligent ; and desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were conti- nued in their places . But every man of ...
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... sufficiently dis- cussed , and whose history is too well known to be minutely repeated . She was a young woman fond of literature , whom Decanus , the Dean , called Ca- denus , by transposition of the letters , took plea- sure in ...
... sufficiently dis- cussed , and whose history is too well known to be minutely repeated . She was a young woman fond of literature , whom Decanus , the Dean , called Ca- denus , by transposition of the letters , took plea- sure in ...
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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.