The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - 602 pages |
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Page 558 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 153 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 491 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
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Page 34 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Eighteenth Century The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Buckland |
| Author | John Hawkins |
| Contributor | James Buckland |
| Publisher | J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 602 pages |
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