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1 DEDICATION . TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . MY DEAR SIR , EVERY liberal
motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours , concurs in
directing me to you , as the person to whom the following Work should be
inscribed ...
1 DEDICATION . TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . MY DEAR SIR , EVERY liberal
motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours , concurs in
directing me to you , as the person to whom the following Work should be
inscribed ...
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That Lady Macclesfield was convicted of the crime of which she was accused ,
cannot be denied ; but the question now is , whether the person calling himself
Richard Savage was her son . It has been said ' , that when Earl Rivers was dying
...
That Lady Macclesfield was convicted of the crime of which she was accused ,
cannot be denied ; but the question now is , whether the person calling himself
Richard Savage was her son . It has been said ' , that when Earl Rivers was dying
...
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I am not quite satisfied with the casuistry by which the productions of one person
are thus passed upon the world for the ... One person's child may be made the
child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient ...
I am not quite satisfied with the casuistry by which the productions of one person
are thus passed upon the world for the ... One person's child may be made the
child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient ...
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... having been pleased to communicate to me a copy of the following letter to his
late father ' , which does great honour both to the writer , and to the noble person
to whom it is addressed : ' To The Right HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BUTE .
... having been pleased to communicate to me a copy of the following letter to his
late father ' , which does great honour both to the writer , and to the noble person
to whom it is addressed : ' To The Right HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BUTE .
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The spirit was then very seriously advertised that the person to whom the promise
was made of striking the coffin , was then about to visit the vault , and that the
performance of the promise was then claimed . The company at one o'clock went
...
The spirit was then very seriously advertised that the person to whom the promise
was made of striking the coffin , was then about to visit the vault , and that the
performance of the promise was then claimed . The company at one o'clock went
...
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Page 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 365 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Page 304 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 304 - 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Page 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
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| Title | Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1 Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2006 |
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