The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pages |
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... character , will be more appreciated when the popular taste again inclines , as it promises to do , toward that description of verse . In these days of controversy on the function of prayer , such lines as these , from his Vanity of ...
... character , will be more appreciated when the popular taste again inclines , as it promises to do , toward that description of verse . In these days of controversy on the function of prayer , such lines as these , from his Vanity of ...
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... character , and for his talking so before me ! ' Sir John Hawkins was Boswell's special object of aversion , and he expresses it in this fashion : Hawkins is , no doubt , very malevolent . Observe how he talks of me as quite unknown ...
... character , and for his talking so before me ! ' Sir John Hawkins was Boswell's special object of aversion , and he expresses it in this fashion : Hawkins is , no doubt , very malevolent . Observe how he talks of me as quite unknown ...
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... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vin- dicated both from the injurious misrepresen- tations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vin- dicated both from the injurious misrepresen- tations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
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... character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Mr. William Whitehead , in which there is literally no Life , bat a mere dry ...
... character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Mr. William Whitehead , in which there is literally no Life , bat a mere dry ...
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... character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of ginger- bread , and said he was the best scholar she ever had . He delighted in mentioning this ...
... character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of ginger- bread , and said he was the best scholar she ever had . He delighted in mentioning this ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams wish write written wrote
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Page 72 - 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...
Page 72 - 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. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Page 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 72 - 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.
Page 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Page 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Page 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Page 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Page 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.