The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 - Authors, English |
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... given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compli ment to the first , by shewing that she made him so happy as a mar- ried man , that he wishes to be so a second time . " So ingenious a turn did he ...
... given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compli ment to the first , by shewing that she made him so happy as a mar- ried man , that he wishes to be so a second time . " So ingenious a turn did he ...
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... given only to vanity or softness . " Canter , indeed , was he none : he would forget to ask people after the health of their nearest relations , and say , in excuse , “ That he knew they did not care why should they ? " said he ...
... given only to vanity or softness . " Canter , indeed , was he none : he would forget to ask people after the health of their nearest relations , and say , in excuse , “ That he knew they did not care why should they ? " said he ...
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... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works , he remarked , that they tended to un- settle everything , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to ...
... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works , he remarked , that they tended to un- settle everything , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to ...
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... given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which , if ...
... given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which , if ...
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... given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the present instance ( as Mr. J. Boswell observes to me ) , " the author of the poem ...
... given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the present instance ( as Mr. J. Boswell observes to me ) , " the author of the poem ...
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Page 424 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 188 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 75 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 94 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 261 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 50 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 387 - There is no arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Page 261 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Page 145 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Page 251 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.