The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pages |
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... talked himself into a certain political creed . But it is for his moral judgments that Johnson will , in future , be chiefly remembered . There are few men whose moral instincts have been so trustworthy as his , and who on that account ...
... talked himself into a certain political creed . But it is for his moral judgments that Johnson will , in future , be chiefly remembered . There are few men whose moral instincts have been so trustworthy as his , and who on that account ...
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... talked with you about a Military Diction- her [ * ] ; and ' A Greek Epigram to Dr. Birch ' [ * ] . ary . The eldest Mr. Macbean , who was with It has been erroneously supposed that an essay , Mr. Chambers , has very good materials for ...
... talked with you about a Military Diction- her [ * ] ; and ' A Greek Epigram to Dr. Birch ' [ * ] . ary . The eldest Mr. Macbean , who was with It has been erroneously supposed that an essay , Mr. Chambers , has very good materials for ...
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... talked much of his Cabiri . As we re- turned to Oxford in the evening , I outwalked Johnson , and he cried out Sufflamina , a Latin took long walks from Oxford into the country , returning to supper . Once , in our way home , we viewed ...
... talked much of his Cabiri . As we re- turned to Oxford in the evening , I outwalked Johnson , and he cried out Sufflamina , a Latin took long walks from Oxford into the country , returning to supper . Once , in our way home , we viewed ...
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... talked carelessly without knowledge of the sub- ject , or even without thought . His person was short , his countenance coarse and vulgar , his de- portment that of a scholar awkwardly affecting the easy gentleman . Those who were in ...
... talked carelessly without knowledge of the sub- ject , or even without thought . His person was short , his countenance coarse and vulgar , his de- portment that of a scholar awkwardly affecting the easy gentleman . Those who were in ...
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... talked of my leaving England , he said with a very affectionate air , ' My dear Boswell , I should be very unhappy at parting , did I think we were not to meet again . ' I cannot too often remind my readers , that although such ...
... talked of my leaving England , he said with a very affectionate air , ' My dear Boswell , I should be very unhappy at parting , did I think we were not to meet again . ' I cannot too often remind my readers , that although such ...
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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'.