The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Հատոր 21822 |
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... wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them , are unwilling should be mentioned , from a too anxious apprehension , as I think , that they might be suspected of having ...
... wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them , are unwilling should be mentioned , from a too anxious apprehension , as I think , that they might be suspected of having ...
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... wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes ' in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day but I made no more . " GOLDSMITH . " Let us hear it ; we'll put a bad one to it ...
... wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes ' in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day but I made no more . " GOLDSMITH . " Let us hear it ; we'll put a bad one to it ...
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... wrote the fol- lowing account which he has been pleased to communicate to me : " The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resi- ded in a village in ...
... wrote the fol- lowing account which he has been pleased to communicate to me : " The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resi- ded in a village in ...
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... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admis- sion as an Advocate , as is the custom ...
... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admis- sion as an Advocate , as is the custom ...
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... wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . " I , 4 [ In a paper already mentioned , ( see vol . i . p . 71 and near the end of the year 1763 ) the following account of this publication is given by a lady ...
... wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . " I , 4 [ In a paper already mentioned , ( see vol . i . p . 71 and near the end of the year 1763 ) the following account of this publication is given by a lady ...
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Էջ 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Էջ 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Էջ 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Էջ 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Էջ 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Էջ 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Էջ 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Էջ 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Էջ 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.