The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams ...
... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams ...
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... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it de- lights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it de- lights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
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... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace , as ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace , as ...
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... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of emi- nence ; that Holdbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson ...
... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of emi- nence ; that Holdbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson ...
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... excellent lady , some few days before her death , in 1756 , he again says , “ I have returned your Law : which , however , I earnestly entreat you to give me . " It must be confessed , however , that Law's almost mystick effusions ...
... excellent lady , some few days before her death , in 1756 , he again says , “ I have returned your Law : which , however , I earnestly entreat you to give me . " It must be confessed , however , that Law's almost mystick effusions ...
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Seite 199 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 362 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Seite 167 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Seite 228 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Seite 198 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Seite 198 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Seite 46 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope, that at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.
Seite 147 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Seite 307 - But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...
Seite xv - Marmor Norfolciense ; or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne, in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus...