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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... kind which Edward performed ; but , as it is rather disgusting to read it , I chufe to give it in the words of the author from whence it is apparently taken , with this remark , that the kings of France lay claim to the fame miraculous ...
... kind which Edward performed ; but , as it is rather disgusting to read it , I chufe to give it in the words of the author from whence it is apparently taken , with this remark , that the kings of France lay claim to the fame miraculous ...
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... kind and indulgent parent . At that time the trade of a country bookfeller , even in a city where was a cathedral and an incorporation of ecclefiaftics , was lefs profitable than it is now ; for though it may be faid , that during the ...
... kind and indulgent parent . At that time the trade of a country bookfeller , even in a city where was a cathedral and an incorporation of ecclefiaftics , was lefs profitable than it is now ; for though it may be faid , that during the ...
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... kind in any author . ' A like propensity to reading , and an equal celerity in the practice thereof , were obfervable in Johnson : it was wonderful to fee , when he took up a book , with what eagerness he perused , and with what hafte ...
... kind in any author . ' A like propensity to reading , and an equal celerity in the practice thereof , were obfervable in Johnson : it was wonderful to fee , when he took up a book , with what eagerness he perused , and with what hafte ...
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... kind of writing : • Too modeft bard , with enigmatic veil • No longer let thy mufe her charms conceal ; Though oft the Sun in clouds his face difguife , • Still he looks nobler when he gilds the skies . Do thou , like him , avow thy ...
... kind of writing : • Too modeft bard , with enigmatic veil • No longer let thy mufe her charms conceal ; Though oft the Sun in clouds his face difguife , • Still he looks nobler when he gilds the skies . Do thou , like him , avow thy ...
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... have been troubled with fuch kind of applications . With one perfon , however , he com- menced an intimacy , the motives to which , at firft E 2 view view , may probably seem harder to be accounted for DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . SI.
... have been troubled with fuch kind of applications . With one perfon , however , he com- menced an intimacy , the motives to which , at firft E 2 view view , may probably seem harder to be accounted for DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . SI.
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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.
Page 196 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
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.
Page 184 - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
Page 60 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
Page 433 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Page 168 - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
Page 195 - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.