The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 Seiten |
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... write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned ...
... write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned ...
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... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
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... writer , ' was therefore ill - founded . Johnson was wise enough to be convinced that he had not the talents necessary to write success- fully for the stage , and never made another attempt in that species of composition . When asked ...
... writer , ' was therefore ill - founded . Johnson was wise enough to be convinced that he had not the talents necessary to write success- fully for the stage , and never made another attempt in that species of composition . When asked ...
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... writes , p . 266 , ' Sailor's fate any mansion : ' whereas the original is , Sailor's life my aversion . He has also ... write nonsense . BOSWELL . 1 The Ramblers certainly were little noticed at first . Smart , the poet , first ...
... writes , p . 266 , ' Sailor's fate any mansion : ' whereas the original is , Sailor's life my aversion . He has also ... write nonsense . BOSWELL . 1 The Ramblers certainly were little noticed at first . Smart , the poet , first ...
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... write soon , and to write often , and to write long letters , which I hope in time to repay you : but you must be a patient creditor . I have , however , this of gratitude , that I think of you with regard when I do not perhaps give the ...
... write soon , and to write often , and to write long letters , which I hope in time to repay you : but you must be a patient creditor . I have , however , this of gratitude , that I think of you with regard when I do not perhaps give the ...
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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'.