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admiration ALEXANDER Alexander Pope Allan Ramsay anon beauty Bentley Berkeley Bishop Bolingbroke character CHARLES Chatterton Christian Cibber Clarissa critic Crusoe Daniel Defoe Defoe Dunciad Edinburgh Review Edwards Eighteenth Century Encyclopædia Britannica England English Literature English Poets Essay excellent fame feeling fiction genius GEORGE Gray heart HENRY Henry Fielding History of English honour Horace Horace Walpole human humour ical imagination JAMES JOHN Johnson Jonathan Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Swift Lady Mary language learning Lectures Letter literary lived Lord Lord Hervey manner Memoirs merit mind moral National Biography nature ness never novel original passion perhaps person philosophical poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's prose reader Richardson Robinson Crusoe SAMUEL Samuel Richardson satire seems sentiments sermons Smollett spirit Sterne style Swift taste things THOMAS Thomson thought tion Tom Jones truth verse WILLIAM writings written wrote
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Էջ 601 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : ' This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !' And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that ' they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Էջ 328 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Էջ 8 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Էջ 547 - ... to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the...
Էջ 5 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Էջ 164 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Էջ 23 - Whereas Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet, entitled, ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters...
Էջ 285 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Էջ 5 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Էջ 181 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!