The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, 第 1 巻Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 ページ |
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... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
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... common prayer - book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , “ Sam , you " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up ftairs , leaving him to ftudy it . But by the time she had reached the second floor ...
... common prayer - book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , “ Sam , you " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up ftairs , leaving him to ftudy it . But by the time she had reached the second floor ...
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... common fports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . Lord Chesterfield , however , has juftly obferved in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against ...
... common fports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . Lord Chesterfield , however , has juftly obferved in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against ...
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... common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his fleep , and whif- pered that it did not become him to write on fuch fubjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the verfification was truly ...
... common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his fleep , and whif- pered that it did not become him to write on fuch fubjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the verfification was truly ...
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... common effect of low fpirits or melancholy , to make thofe who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually fuffering those evils which happen to be moft ftrongly prefented to their minds . Some have fancied themselves to be ...
... common effect of low fpirits or melancholy , to make thofe who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually fuffering those evils which happen to be moft ftrongly prefented to their minds . Some have fancied themselves to be ...
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36 ページ - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
243 ページ - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
225 ページ - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
141 ページ - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
40 ページ - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
141 ページ - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
2 ページ - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
257 ページ - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
68 ページ - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.