The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Band 3J. Richardson and Company, 1821 |
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... the 15th of March . ] " I AM ashamed to think that since I received your letter I have passed so many days without an- swering it . VOL . III . B " I think there is no great difficulty in resolving rom . C. Hallands LIFE ...
... the 15th of March . ] " I AM ashamed to think that since I received your letter I have passed so many days without an- swering it . VOL . III . B " I think there is no great difficulty in resolving rom . C. Hallands LIFE ...
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... passed on that subject . You must , therefore , inform Dr. Horne , that he may resume his plan . I enclose a note concerning it ; and if Dr. Horne will write to me , all the attention that I can give shall be cheerfully bestowed , upon ...
... passed on that subject . You must , therefore , inform Dr. Horne , that he may resume his plan . I enclose a note concerning it ; and if Dr. Horne will write to me , all the attention that I can give shall be cheerfully bestowed , upon ...
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... passed over into Anglesea . But Wales is so little different from England , that it offers nothing to the speculation of the traveller . " When I came home , I found several of your papers , with some pages of Lord Hailes's Annals ...
... passed over into Anglesea . But Wales is so little different from England , that it offers nothing to the speculation of the traveller . " When I came home , I found several of your papers , with some pages of Lord Hailes's Annals ...
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... passed between you and him . It is confidently told here , that before your book came out he sent to you , to let you know that he understood you meant to deny the authenticity of Ossian's poems ; that the originals were in his ...
... passed between you and him . It is confidently told here , that before your book came out he sent to you , to let you know that he understood you meant to deny the authenticity of Ossian's poems ; that the originals were in his ...
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... " By this road , though one of the most rugged in Great Britain , the celebrated Dr. Johnson passed from Inverness to the Hebride Isles . His observations on the country and people are extremely correct , 32 [ 1775 . THE LIFE OF.
... " By this road , though one of the most rugged in Great Britain , the celebrated Dr. Johnson passed from Inverness to the Hebride Isles . His observations on the country and people are extremely correct , 32 [ 1775 . THE LIFE OF.
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Seite 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Seite 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 258 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Seite 68 - Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.' The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Seite 173 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Seite 181 - The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have "matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.
Seite 264 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Seite 354 - Life, he must represent- it really as it was :" and when I objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess, he said, that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking, when it was seen, that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it.
Seite 185 - we are a city of philosophers ; we work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.
Seite 307 - ... would amplify knowledge with new views and new objects. Set about it therefore, if you can: do what you can easily do without anxious exactness. Lay the foundation, and leave the superstructure to posterity. I am, Sir, 'Your most humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.