The Life of Samuel Johnson: 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 ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... MISS BOOTHBY . DEAREST MADAM , 66 January , 1755 . " THOUGH I am afraid your illness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my con- gratulations on the new year ; and to declare ...
... MISS BOOTHBY . DEAREST MADAM , 66 January , 1755 . " THOUGH I am afraid your illness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my con- gratulations on the new year ; and to declare ...
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... Miss Boothby , succeeded her in the management of Mr. Fitzherbert's family , and in the esteem of Dr. Johnson ; though he told me , she pushed her piety to bigotry , her devotion to enthusiasm ; that she somewhat disqualified herself ...
... Miss Boothby , succeeded her in the management of Mr. Fitzherbert's family , and in the esteem of Dr. Johnson ; though he told me , she pushed her piety to bigotry , her devotion to enthusiasm ; that she somewhat disqualified herself ...
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... miss it in a moment of inattention . It is unjust , Sir , to censure lawyers for multiplying words , when they argue ; it is often necessary for them to multiply words . " His notion of the duty of a member of Parliament , sitting upon ...
... miss it in a moment of inattention . It is unjust , Sir , to censure lawyers for multiplying words , when they argue ; it is often necessary for them to multiply words . " His notion of the duty of a member of Parliament , sitting upon ...
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... missed it . " The general course of his life was determined by his profession ; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages ; with what diligence and success his Notes upon the Psalms give sufficient evidence . He once ...
... missed it . " The general course of his life was determined by his profession ; he studied the sacred volumes in the original languages ; with what diligence and success his Notes upon the Psalms give sufficient evidence . He once ...
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... miss a part of the lecture , it is lost ; you cannot go back as you do upon a book . " Dr. Scott agreed with him . " But yet ( said I , ) Dr. Scott , you yourself gave lectures at Oxford . " He smiled . " You laughed ( then said I ) at ...
... miss a part of the lecture , it is lost ; you cannot go back as you do upon a book . " Dr. Scott agreed with him . " But yet ( said I , ) Dr. Scott , you yourself gave lectures at Oxford . " He smiled . " You laughed ( then said I ) at ...
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Seite 412 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 426 - Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will ; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high, — What are acres ? what are houses ? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste ; Scorn their counsels, scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last.
Seite 27 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Seite 106 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings ; ' and thus by degrees the title was established.
Seite 139 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Seite 42 - ... felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
Seite 287 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Seite 92 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Seite 95 - 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 ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Seite 19 - I would put a child into a library (where no unfit books are) and let him read at his choice. A child should not be discouraged from reading anything that he takes a liking to, from a notion that it is above his reach. If that be the case, the child will soon find it out and desist ; if not, he of course gains the instruction ; which is so much the more likely to come, from the inclination with which he takes up the study.