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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... must I write ? Why write , answered he , fo ; Here lies good Mafter Duck , That Samuel Johnson trod on , If't had liv'd ' twould have been good luck , For then there'd been an odd one . and fhe wrote accordingly . Being arrived at a ...
... must I write ? Why write , answered he , fo ; Here lies good Mafter Duck , That Samuel Johnson trod on , If't had liv'd ' twould have been good luck , For then there'd been an odd one . and fhe wrote accordingly . Being arrived at a ...
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... must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid through poverty , nor want drive me into wickedness * In the month of June in the following year , 1733 , I find him refident in the house of a perfon ...
... must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid through poverty , nor want drive me into wickedness * In the month of June in the following year , 1733 , I find him refident in the house of a perfon ...
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... must have been fome interval between the times of writing the first and the last . The firft is dated in 1737 , and , as it contains a recommendation of Gar- rick to Mr. Colfon , for instruction in mathematics , philofophy , and human ...
... must have been fome interval between the times of writing the first and the last . The firft is dated in 1737 , and , as it contains a recommendation of Gar- rick to Mr. Colfon , for instruction in mathematics , philofophy , and human ...
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... must be ima- gined , the instruction of fo fniall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to pursue his D4 private 1 private studies and amusements , which , for the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a ...
... must be ima- gined , the instruction of fo fniall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to pursue his D4 private 1 private studies and amusements , which , for the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a ...
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... must be remembered that there was the fame objection against Le Courayer's undertak- ing , with this disadvantage , that the French had ⚫ a verfion by one of their beft tranflators , whereas . you cannot read three pages of the English ...
... must be remembered that there was the fame objection against Le Courayer's undertak- ing , with this disadvantage , that the French had ⚫ a verfion by one of their beft tranflators , whereas . you cannot read three pages of the English ...
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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.