The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Հատոր 21831 |
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... knew that it was not demanded elsewhere , but that he might safely employ it as he pleased . " His example was confined , by the sequestered place of his abode , to the ob- servation of few , though his prudence and virtue would have ...
... knew that it was not demanded elsewhere , but that he might safely employ it as he pleased . " His example was confined , by the sequestered place of his abode , to the ob- servation of few , though his prudence and virtue would have ...
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... knew , and must now read to acquire more knowledge . The king , as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer , and to continue his labours , then said , " I do not think you borrow much from ...
... knew , and must now read to acquire more knowledge . The king , as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer , and to continue his labours , then said , " I do not think you borrow much from ...
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... knew Pope ; his acquaintance with that poet , but of four years ' continuance , was ended by Pope's death in 1744. It was ten years after , that he became a king's chaplain , and , in 1755 , he had a prebend in the cathedral of Durham ...
... knew Pope ; his acquaintance with that poet , but of four years ' continuance , was ended by Pope's death in 1744. It was ten years after , that he became a king's chaplain , and , in 1755 , he had a prebend in the cathedral of Durham ...
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... knew , he might have been a very considerable man , and needed not to have recourse to such mean expedients to raise his reputation . The king then talked of literary journals , men- tioned particularly the Journal des Savans , and ...
... knew , he might have been a very considerable man , and needed not to have recourse to such mean expedients to raise his reputation . The king then talked of literary journals , men- tioned particularly the Journal des Savans , and ...
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... knew how a watch was made , and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial - plate . " This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners . But I cannot ...
... knew how a watch was made , and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial - plate . " This was a short and figurative state of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners . But I cannot ...
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Էջ 126 - 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.
Էջ 257 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Էջ 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Էջ 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Էջ 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Էջ 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Էջ 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Էջ 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Էջ 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Էջ 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.