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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... will to the end of time be by his writings preferved in admiration . s Plutarch's Life of Alexander . - Langhorne's Tranflation . " There " There are many invisible circumstances , which whether we THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 5.
... will to the end of time be by his writings preferved in admiration . s Plutarch's Life of Alexander . - Langhorne's Tranflation . " There " There are many invisible circumstances , which whether we THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 5.
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... preferved a few anecdotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry , and he retained his fond- nefs for them through ...
... preferved a few anecdotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry , and he retained his fond- nefs for them through ...
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... preferved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . " His ftudies had been fo various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know ...
... preferved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . " His ftudies had been fo various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know ...
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... preferved . The letter was brought to Dr. Taylor , at his house in the Cloysters , Westminster , about three in the morning ; and as it fignified an earnest defire to fee him , he got up , and went to Johnson as foon as he was dressed ...
... preferved . The letter was brought to Dr. Taylor , at his house in the Cloysters , Westminster , about three in the morning ; and as it fignified an earnest defire to fee him , he got up , and went to Johnson as foon as he was dressed ...
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... preferved . Johnson was not the lefs ready to love Mr. Langton , for his being of a very ancient family ; for I have heard him fay , with pleafure , " Langton , Sir , has a grant of a warren from Henry the Second ; and Cardinal Stephen ...
... preferved . Johnson was not the lefs ready to love Mr. Langton , for his being of a very ancient family ; for I have heard him fay , with pleafure , " Langton , Sir , has a grant of a warren from Henry the Second ; and Cardinal Stephen ...
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296 ページ - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
142 ページ - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
239 ページ - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
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.
142 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.
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.
252 ページ - I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " 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.
1 ページ - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
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.