The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days , and half his nights , in ciphering ...
... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days , and half his nights , in ciphering ...
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... reputation was high , they had , undoubtedly , more imitators than time has left behind . Their imme- diate successours , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
... reputation was high , they had , undoubtedly , more imitators than time has left behind . Their imme- diate successours , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
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... reputation , that I am not willing to dis- miss them with unabated censure ; and , surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve , at least , that admiration which is due to great 9 First published ...
... reputation , that I am not willing to dis- miss them with unabated censure ; and , surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve , at least , that admiration which is due to great 9 First published ...
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... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
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... reputation in his profession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had , probably , more than common lite- rature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of ...
... reputation in his profession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had , probably , more than common lite- rature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of ...
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18 ページ - To the following comparison of a man that travels and his wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness
107 ページ - add, of my own knowledge, that it was a book that Dr. Johnson frequently resorted to, as many others have done, for amusement after the fatigue of study. H.—Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Johnson said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to
18 ページ - far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou he to me, who must Like th' other foot obliquely run, , Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I
66 ページ - a speech of Mr. John Milton, for the liberty of unlicensed printing. The danger of such 'unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems, hitherto, unable to solve. If nothing may be published but
323 ページ - of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials. The power that predominated in his intellectual operations, was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions, as
92 ページ - put an end to the secrecy of love, and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence.
421 ページ - thought herself entitled to treat with very little Ceremony the tutor of her son. Howe's ballad of the Despairing Shepherd, is said to have been written, either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair; and it is certain that Addison has left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love.
457 ページ - shall transcribe from the correspondence of Swift and Pope. life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the mediocrists, in prose as \vell as verse." To this Pope returns: " To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes; what he wanted in genius, he
12 ページ - elegant or gross ; whether they compared the little to the great, or the great to the little. Physick and chirurgery for a lover: Gently, ah gently, madam, touch The wound, which you yourself have made; That pain must needs be very much, Which makes me of your hand afraid, Cordials of pity give me now., For J
68 ページ - a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great: " Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as