The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Band 31821 |
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... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Mac- pherson ...
... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Mac- pherson ...
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... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , " He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , " He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
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... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and gaiety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and gaiety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
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... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the pre- ceding night , some fresh peels ...
... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the pre- ceding night , some fresh peels ...
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... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , —un gentilhomme comme un autre . 1 " The original is in the hands of Dr. Fothergill ...
... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , —un gentilhomme comme un autre . 1 " The original is in the hands of Dr. Fothergill ...
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Seite 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Seite 258 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — ' BOSWELL. 'Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you.' JOHNSON. 'What do you mean, sir ? What do you take me for ? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table ?
Seite 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 237 - It having been mentioned, I know not with what truth, that a certain female political writer, whose doctrines he disliked, had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge — JOHNSON : She is better employed at her toilet than using her pen. It is better she should be reddening her own cheeks, than blackening other people's characters.
Seite 173 - He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: — ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round. Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 358 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?'" BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, Sir ?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest...
Seite 226 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.
Seite 290 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 7 - He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.
Seite 353 - The horror of death, which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson, appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, " he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.