The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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James Boswell. a sufficient reason for hastening your return.- The longer we live , and the more we think , the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends . Parents we can have but once ; and ...
James Boswell. a sufficient reason for hastening your return.- The longer we live , and the more we think , the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends . Parents we can have but once ; and ...
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... live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that the Club subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public business , in which he has gained more ...
... live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that the Club subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public business , in which he has gained more ...
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... live upon the hope of pleasing somebody ; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest , and at last always will be greatest , when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty . " Life is not long , and too much of it ...
... live upon the hope of pleasing somebody ; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest , and at last always will be greatest , when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty . " Life is not long , and too much of it ...
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... live to see such as you desire him . " I have not lately seen Mr. Elphinston , but believe him to be prosperous . I shall be glad to hear the same of you ; for I am , SIR , " Your affectionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON ...
... live to see such as you desire him . " I have not lately seen Mr. Elphinston , but believe him to be prosperous . I shall be glad to hear the same of you ; for I am , SIR , " Your affectionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON ...
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... live with my mother about 1724 , and has been but little parted from us since . She buried my father , my brother , and my mother . She is now fifty - eight years old . " I desired all to withdraw , then told her that we were to part ...
... live with my mother about 1724 , and has been but little parted from us since . She buried my father , my brother , and my mother . She is now fifty - eight years old . " I desired all to withdraw , then told her that we were to part ...
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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.