The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Band 4J. Richardson and Company, 1821 |
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... humour , " Sir , if Robertson's style be faulty , he owes it to me ; that is , having too many words , and those too big ones . " I read to him a letter which Lord Monboddo had written to me , containing some critical remarks upon the ...
... humour , " Sir , if Robertson's style be faulty , he owes it to me ; that is , having too many words , and those too big ones . " I read to him a letter which Lord Monboddo had written to me , containing some critical remarks upon the ...
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... humour to slide into easy and cheerful talk . It therefore so happened , that we were after an hour or two very willing to separate and go to bed . On Wednesday , September 24 , I went into Dr. Johnson's room before he got up , and ...
... humour to slide into easy and cheerful talk . It therefore so happened , that we were after an hour or two very willing to separate and go to bed . On Wednesday , September 24 , I went into Dr. Johnson's room before he got up , and ...
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... humour to do me this favour ; but I flatter myself with no strong hope of it ; for I have observed , that unless upon very serious occasions , your letters to me are not answers to those which I write . " [ I then expressed much ...
... humour to do me this favour ; but I flatter myself with no strong hope of it ; for I have observed , that unless upon very serious occasions , your letters to me are not answers to those which I write . " [ I then expressed much ...
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... humour , to find that motion , and nearer approaches to the sun , did not restore your health so fast as I expected . Of your health , the accounts have lately been more pleasing ; and I have the gratification of imaging to myself a ...
... humour , to find that motion , and nearer approaches to the sun , did not restore your health so fast as I expected . Of your health , the accounts have lately been more pleasing ; and I have the gratification of imaging to myself a ...
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... humour , than when this subject was discussed be- tween him and Mr. Murphy . When we were at tea and coffee , there came in Lord Trimlestown , in whose family was an ancient Irish peerage , but it suffered by taking the generous side in ...
... humour , than when this subject was discussed be- tween him and Mr. Murphy . When we were at tea and coffee , there came in Lord Trimlestown , in whose family was an ancient Irish peerage , but it suffered by taking the generous side in ...
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Seite 14 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 19 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Seite 13 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Seite 38 - I never experienced any where else. But, as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army, and considered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home and think ; but that the thoughts of each individual there, would be distressing when alone.
Seite 306 - 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 322 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
Seite 317 - Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of...
Seite 43 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in 'their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to ' " shut the...
Seite 365 - Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his buttonhole, like an exciseman; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property, which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Seite 7 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.