The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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James Boswell. dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his compo- sition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive ...
James Boswell. dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his compo- sition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive ...
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James Boswell. thing ; only he said it in a softer manner than Goldsmith did ; for he acknowledged that there was no poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no poetry ...
James Boswell. thing ; only he said it in a softer manner than Goldsmith did ; for he acknowledged that there was no poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no poetry ...
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James Boswell. sir , they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are if Cumberland had not put his name to them ; but a name immediately draws censure , unless it be a name that bears down every thing before it . Nay ...
James Boswell. sir , they would have been thought as good as Odes commonly are if Cumberland had not put his name to them ; but a name immediately draws censure , unless it be a name that bears down every thing before it . Nay ...
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James Boswell. extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge . It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things . " We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol . " Let us see now ( said I ) , how we should ...
James Boswell. extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge . It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things . " We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol . " Let us see now ( said I ) , how we should ...
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James Boswell. mend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament , and Hammond on the New . " During my stay in London this spring , I soli- cited his attention to another law case , in which I was engaged . In the course of a contested ...
James Boswell. mend Lowth and Patrick on the Old Testament , and Hammond on the New . " During my stay in London this spring , I soli- cited his attention to another law case , in which I was engaged . In the course of a contested ...
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Seite 178 - 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 177 - 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.
Seite 358 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Seite 307 - You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Seite 183 - 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 201 - Solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day...
Seite 270 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, "Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Seite 64 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Seite 267 - Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Seite 313 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.