Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Band 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... poem will leave it a question for posterity , whether his or mine be the original . ' Haw- kins , p . 13 . 3 . A Miscellany of Poems by several hands . Published by J. Hus- bands , A.M. , Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxon . , Oxford ...
... poem will leave it a question for posterity , whether his or mine be the original . ' Haw- kins , p . 13 . 3 . A Miscellany of Poems by several hands . Published by J. Hus- bands , A.M. , Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxon . , Oxford ...
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... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ' ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most Acts xvi . 30 . Sept. 7 , Old ...
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ' ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most Acts xvi . 30 . Sept. 7 , Old ...
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... poem to an end , ' and post , April 19 , 1773 , and June 15 , 1784. To him might be applied his own description of Barretier : - ' He had a quickness of apprehension and He Aetat . 20. ] His rapid reading and composition .
... poem to an end , ' and post , April 19 , 1773 , and June 15 , 1784. To him might be applied his own description of Barretier : - ' He had a quickness of apprehension and He Aetat . 20. ] His rapid reading and composition .
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... Poets , in Manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . MALONE . He wrote forty - eight of the printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage at a sitting ( post , Feb. 1744 ) , and a hundred lines of the ...
... Poets , in Manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . MALONE . He wrote forty - eight of the printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage at a sitting ( post , Feb. 1744 ) , and a hundred lines of the ...
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... poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , ' Sir , we are a nest of sing . ing birds ' . ' wish little better than that it may long proceed as it began . ' John- son's Works , vi . 476. To this list Nash adds the name of the ...
... poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , ' Sir , we are a nest of sing . ing birds ' . ' wish little better than that it may long proceed as it began . ' John- son's Works , vi . 476. To this list Nash adds the name of the ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.