The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pages |
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... pleasure in celebrating the dis- tinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
... pleasure in celebrating the dis- tinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
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... pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that college , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who ...
... pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that college , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who ...
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... pleasure so soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any man- ner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the enclosed poem in my hands to dis- pose of for the benefit of the author ( of whose abilities I ...
... pleasure so soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any man- ner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the enclosed poem in my hands to dis- pose of for the benefit of the author ( of whose abilities I ...
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... pleasure ; and it should not pass unobserved , that he has quoted no author whose writings had a tendency to hurt sound religion and morality . The necessary expense of preparing a work of such magnitude for the press must have been a ...
... pleasure ; and it should not pass unobserved , that he has quoted no author whose writings had a tendency to hurt sound religion and morality . The necessary expense of preparing a work of such magnitude for the press must have been a ...
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... pleasure of an actor . Yet Garrick knew well , that without some alterations it would not be fit for the stage . A violent dispute having en- sued between them , Garrick applied to the Rev. Dr. Taylor to interpose . Johnson was at first ...
... pleasure of an actor . Yet Garrick knew well , that without some alterations it would not be fit for the stage . A violent dispute having en- sued between them , Garrick applied to the Rev. Dr. Taylor to interpose . Johnson was at first ...
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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'.