The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesG. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... nature . Next day we talked of a book 2 in which an eminent judge was arraigned before the bar of the publick , as having pronounced an unjust decision in a great cause . Dr. Johnson maintained that this publication would not give any ...
... nature . Next day we talked of a book 2 in which an eminent judge was arraigned before the bar of the publick , as having pronounced an unjust decision in a great cause . Dr. Johnson maintained that this publication would not give any ...
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... Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is re- presented as being subject to fits of yawning was found guilty of a libel against Earl Cowper , so violent as to render him incapable of pro- deceased , because certain injurious ...
... Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is re- presented as being subject to fits of yawning was found guilty of a libel against Earl Cowper , so violent as to render him incapable of pro- deceased , because certain injurious ...
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... nature . Fanciful people may talk of a mythology being amongst them ; but it must be invention . They have once had religion , which has been gradually debased . And what account of their religion can you suppose to be learnt from ...
... nature . Fanciful people may talk of a mythology being amongst them ; but it must be invention . They have once had religion , which has been gradually debased . And what account of their religion can you suppose to be learnt from ...
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... nature ; 66 no , I only regret it be- cause his wife was by . " Miss Reynolds believed that he had no kind of motive for this incivility to Mr. J. Wilkes but disgust at his brother's political principles . ] I am now to record a very ...
... nature ; 66 no , I only regret it be- cause his wife was by . " Miss Reynolds believed that he had no kind of motive for this incivility to Mr. J. Wilkes but disgust at his brother's political principles . ] I am now to record a very ...
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... nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habita- tion , and as many conveniences . He has got five - and - twenty guineas by translating Sir Joshua's Discourses into Italian , and Mr ...
... nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habita- tion , and as many conveniences . He has got five - and - twenty guineas by translating Sir Joshua's Discourses into Italian , and Mr ...
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Seite 74 - Pray give me leave, Sir: — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Seite 293 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor), Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Seite 350 - I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has been long my custom, when I felt a confusion and indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse™. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very...
Seite 140 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Seite 176 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen (said he), Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.
Seite 72 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — " Boswell: "Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you." Johnson: "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Seite 283 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 218 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Seite 145 - John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
Seite 279 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his Letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps...