THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D1892 |
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... writing — Edinburgh surveyed — Character of Swift's works — Evil spirits and witchcraft — Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 24 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing — Scepticism — Eternal necessity refuted — Lord Hailes' criticism on The ...
... writing — Edinburgh surveyed — Character of Swift's works — Evil spirits and witchcraft — Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 24 17. Poetry and Dictionary-writing — Scepticism — Eternal necessity refuted — Lord Hailes' criticism on The ...
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... writing the lives of literary men — Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed 20! 23. Further disquisition on Fingal — Eminent men disconcerted by a new mode of public appearance — Gar- rick, Johnson and Boswell on — Mrs ...
... writing the lives of literary men — Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed 20! 23. Further disquisition on Fingal — Eminent men disconcerted by a new mode of public appearance — Gar- rick, Johnson and Boswell on — Mrs ...
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... write to me what I know you think, that I may read it to the mighty sage, with proper emphasis. before I leave London, which I must do soon. He talks of you with the same warmth that he did last year. We are to see as much, of Scotland ...
... write to me what I know you think, that I may read it to the mighty sage, with proper emphasis. before I leave London, which I must do soon. He talks of you with the same warmth that he did last year. We are to see as much, of Scotland ...
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... writing it. He was conscious of his superiority. He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it. He was somewhat susceptible of flattery. His mind was so full of imagery, that he might have been ...
... writing it. He was conscious of his superiority. He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it. He was somewhat susceptible of flattery. His mind was so full of imagery, that he might have been ...
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... writes to him, " I remove my house this week to James's Court." There he remained till the spring of 1770, when he seems to have moved to the house which he had built in the New Town of Edinburgh, at the south-west corner of the street ...
... writes to him, " I remove my house this week to James's Court." There he remained till the spring of 1770, when he seems to have moved to the house which he had built in the New Town of Edinburgh, at the south-west corner of the street ...
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Seite 66 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two.
Seite 437 - Death by the Ancients. Translated by EC Beasley and Helen Zimmern. Edited by Edward Bell, MA With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. y- 6d. LILLY'S Introduction to Astrology.
Seite 439 - History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles. Translated by JE Ryland. 2 vols. 3*. 6d. each. Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
Seite 77 - ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Seite 64 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Seite 91 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Seite 429 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert ; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal; and a Melange.
Seite 439 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM Twenty-four Portraits 6s. Nicolini's History of the Jesuits: their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs. Fine Portraits of Loyola, Laines, Xavier, Borgia, Acquaviva, Pere la Cliaise, and Pope h'anganclli.
Seite 423 - APPIAN'S Roman History. Translated by Horace White, MA, LL.D. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols. 6s. each.
Seite 431 - FLORENCE of WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History, from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.