The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... Court , Fleet Street , London , Oct. 17 , 1765. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " I have not been able to recover the letter which Johnson wrote to Dr. Andrews on this occasion . M. ] thy will , to attain such knowledge as may qualify 4 1765 . THE ...
... Court , Fleet Street , London , Oct. 17 , 1765. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " I have not been able to recover the letter which Johnson wrote to Dr. Andrews on this occasion . M. ] thy will , to attain such knowledge as may qualify 4 1765 . THE ...
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... Court , Fleet Street , January 14 , 1766. " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , in which he had accommodated Miss Williams with an apartment on the ground floor ...
... Court , Fleet Street , January 14 , 1766. " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , in which he had accommodated Miss Williams with an apartment on the ground floor ...
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... court for sixpence worth of good . But if you can get a shilling's worth of good for six- pence worth of court , you are a fool if you do not pay court . " He said , " If convents should be allowed at all , they should only be retreats ...
... court for sixpence worth of good . But if you can get a shilling's worth of good for six- pence worth of court , you are a fool if you do not pay court . " He said , " If convents should be allowed at all , they should only be retreats ...
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... court of justice . Rousseau , sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work in the plan ...
... court of justice . Rousseau , sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work in the plan ...
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... Court , Fleet Street . " 66 " SAM . JOHNSON . " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . AT LANGTON , NEAR SPILSBY , LINCOLNSHIRE . 66 DEAR SIR , " In supposing that I should be more than com- monly affected by the death of Peregrine Lang- ton ' , you ...
... Court , Fleet Street . " 66 " SAM . JOHNSON . " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . AT LANGTON , NEAR SPILSBY , LINCOLNSHIRE . 66 DEAR SIR , " In supposing that I should be more than com- monly affected by the death of Peregrine Lang- ton ' , you ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admiration afraid answered appeared asked authour Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON called character church compliments consider conversation Court dined Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge King lady Langton laugh learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner ment mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem publick racter reason remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth wish wonder write written wrote
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Seite 363 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 326 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Seite 190 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.
Seite 213 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
Seite 123 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Seite 173 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Seite 323 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," —" When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Seite 90 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
Seite 260 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
Seite 233 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.