The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 Seiten |
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James Boswell William Wallace. SAMUEL JOHNSON . PROBABLY none of the many sweeping judgments to which Lord Macaulay , in the course of his career as critic , gave utterance , has met with such general acceptance as this : Homer is not ...
James Boswell William Wallace. SAMUEL JOHNSON . PROBABLY none of the many sweeping judgments to which Lord Macaulay , in the course of his career as critic , gave utterance , has met with such general acceptance as this : Homer is not ...
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James Boswell William Wallace. political parties by Hume , Johnson's contemporary , as correct , we should say that , by sym- pathy and disposition at all events , he should be ticketed as a Whig . That great writer , to whom Johnson ...
James Boswell William Wallace. political parties by Hume , Johnson's contemporary , as correct , we should say that , by sym- pathy and disposition at all events , he should be ticketed as a Whig . That great writer , to whom Johnson ...
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James Boswell William Wallace. LIFE OF JAMES BOSWELL . THE life of the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson is essentially uneventful and common . place . James Boswell was born at Edinburgh , October 29 , 1740. His father was one of the ...
James Boswell William Wallace. LIFE OF JAMES BOSWELL . THE life of the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson is essentially uneventful and common . place . James Boswell was born at Edinburgh , October 29 , 1740. His father was one of the ...
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James Boswell William Wallace. heart and an eye to discern wisdom and an utterance to render it forth ; because of his free insight , his lively talent , above all , his love and childlike open - mindedness . ' The great vice of Boswell ...
James Boswell William Wallace. heart and an eye to discern wisdom and an utterance to render it forth ; because of his free insight , his lively talent , above all , his love and childlike open - mindedness . ' The great vice of Boswell ...
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James Boswell William Wallace. CONTENTS . LIST OF PERSONS AND DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds Advertisement to the First Edition Subsequent Editions Motto CHAP . I. - Introductory . PAGE xiii CHAP ...
James Boswell William Wallace. CONTENTS . LIST OF PERSONS AND DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds Advertisement to the First Edition Subsequent Editions Motto CHAP . I. - Introductory . PAGE xiii CHAP ...
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Seite 72 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Seite 72 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Seite 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Seite 72 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Seite 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Seite 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Seite 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Seite 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Seite 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Seite 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.