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. In Two Volumes, Band 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 Seiten |
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... authour of his age , that refpectable body of men , the Bookfellers of London , from vulgar reflections , as if their profits were exorbitant , when , in truth , Dr. Johnson has here allowed them more thar they usually demand . 1776 ...
... authour of his age , that refpectable body of men , the Bookfellers of London , from vulgar reflections , as if their profits were exorbitant , when , in truth , Dr. Johnson has here allowed them more thar they usually demand . 1776 ...
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... authour , or concerning a queftion in antiquities , or any other fubject in which human happiness is not deeply interested , a man may treat his antagonist with politeness and even refpect . But where the controverfy is concerning the ...
... authour , or concerning a queftion in antiquities , or any other fubject in which human happiness is not deeply interested , a man may treat his antagonist with politeness and even refpect . But where the controverfy is concerning the ...
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... authour having occafion in that part of his work to mention the havock made by rats and mice , had introduced the subject in a kind of mock heroick , and a parody of Homer's battle of the frogs and mice , invoking the Muse of the old ...
... authour having occafion in that part of his work to mention the havock made by rats and mice , had introduced the subject in a kind of mock heroick , and a parody of Homer's battle of the frogs and mice , invoking the Muse of the old ...
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... authour could justify himself by proving the fact . JOHNSON . " Sir , it is of fo much more confequence that truth fhould be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain ...
... authour could justify himself by proving the fact . JOHNSON . " Sir , it is of fo much more confequence that truth fhould be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain ...
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... authour of a Hudi- brastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of fome poems in Dodsley's collection ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modeft man , has never put his name to any thing . He has ...
... authour of a Hudi- brastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of fome poems in Dodsley's collection ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modeft man , has never put his name to any thing . He has ...
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Seite 158 - 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 350 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Seite 155 - 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 504 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Seite 384 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 150 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Seite 316 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Seite 233 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy*. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ', nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Seite 581 - So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Seite 581 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality ; both from a regard for the order of society and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended...