The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, 第 1 巻1831 |
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... passing away in which any aid could be expected from the contemporaries of Johnson , or even of Boswell , the editor determined to under- take the work - believing that , however ill he might perform it , he should still do it better ...
... passing away in which any aid could be expected from the contemporaries of Johnson , or even of Boswell , the editor determined to under- take the work - believing that , however ill he might perform it , he should still do it better ...
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... passed almost unblemished through so terrible an ordeal ! The editor confesses , that if he could have had any voice as to the original publications , he probably might have shrunk from the responsibility incurred by Mrs. Piozzi , Mr ...
... passed almost unblemished through so terrible an ordeal ! The editor confesses , that if he could have had any voice as to the original publications , he probably might have shrunk from the responsibility incurred by Mrs. Piozzi , Mr ...
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... passed through the press ; but after having com- pleted his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so de- servedly obtained , he fulfilled ...
... passed through the press ; but after having com- pleted his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so de- servedly obtained , he fulfilled ...
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... passed through my hands , I am not answerable for any typographical errors that may be found in it . Having , however , been printed at the very accurate press of Mr. Baldwin , I make no doubt it will be found not less perfect than the ...
... passed through my hands , I am not answerable for any typographical errors that may be found in it . Having , however , been printed at the very accurate press of Mr. Baldwin , I make no doubt it will be found not less perfect than the ...
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... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
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246 ページ - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
470 ページ - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
xxviii ページ - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
424 ページ - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
246 ページ - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
375 ページ - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
105 ページ - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
166 ページ - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
116 ページ - Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power or hapless love ; Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep, undisturb'd, within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
398 ページ - Scotland«, which I used in the sense of being of that country: and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it; retorted, »That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help«.