Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Band 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchin- leck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchin- leck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
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... or an oracle ' . ' Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the following pages to the candour of the Publick . Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. BOSWELL . SAMUEL 40 Johnson's birth and baptism . [ A.D. 1709 .
... or an oracle ' . ' Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the following pages to the candour of the Publick . Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. BOSWELL . SAMUEL 40 Johnson's birth and baptism . [ A.D. 1709 .
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... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the Clergy here are his Pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the Clergy here are his Pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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Seite 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Seite 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Seite 304 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Seite 304 - 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Seite 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Seite 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Seite 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Seite 460 - I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.