The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
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... occasion , it may be asked , for a new tract on the same threadbare subject ? The plain truth shall be the answer . The prodigious variety of foreign matter introduced into former biographies of this great man , seemed to overload his ...
... occasion , it may be asked , for a new tract on the same threadbare subject ? The plain truth shall be the answer . The prodigious variety of foreign matter introduced into former biographies of this great man , seemed to overload his ...
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... occasion , for- bear recollecting the predictions of Boileau's father , who said , stroking the head of the young satirist , ' this little man has too much wit , but he will never speak ill of any one ? ' " On Johnson's return from ...
... occasion , for- bear recollecting the predictions of Boileau's father , who said , stroking the head of the young satirist , ' this little man has too much wit , but he will never speak ill of any one ? ' " On Johnson's return from ...
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... occasion- ed by dissipation . His abstinence from wine and strong liquors began soon after the departure of Savage . What habits he contracted in the course The of that acquaintance cannot now be known . The ambition C 2 DR . SAMUEL ...
... occasion- ed by dissipation . His abstinence from wine and strong liquors began soon after the departure of Savage . What habits he contracted in the course The of that acquaintance cannot now be known . The ambition C 2 DR . SAMUEL ...
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... occasion : Mr. Wedderburne ( afterward Lord Loughborough ) , Dr. Johnson , Dr. Francis ( the trans- lator of Horace ) , the present writer , and others , Idined with the late Mr. Foote . An important de- bate towards the end of Sir ...
... occasion : Mr. Wedderburne ( afterward Lord Loughborough ) , Dr. Johnson , Dr. Francis ( the trans- lator of Horace ) , the present writer , and others , Idined with the late Mr. Foote . An important de- bate towards the end of Sir ...
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... occasion to decorate himself with a hand- some waistcoat and a gold - laced hat . The late Mr. Topham Beauclerc , who had a great deal of that hu- mour which pleases the more for seeming unde- signed , used to give a pleasant ...
... occasion to decorate himself with a hand- some waistcoat and a gold - laced hat . The late Mr. Topham Beauclerc , who had a great deal of that hu- mour which pleases the more for seeming unde- signed , used to give a pleasant ...
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35 ページ - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
242 ページ - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
28 ページ - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
69 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
242 ページ - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
259 ページ - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
245 ページ - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
183 ページ - ... to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
272 ページ - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
100 ページ - ... to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.