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Pagina xvi
... sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much ...
... sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much ...
Pagina 26
... sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived ...
... sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived ...
Pagina 65
... Sure of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . " - BOSWELL . Johnson's meaning , however , is , that a scholar who is a blockhead , must be the worst of all blockheads , because he is without excuse . But Bramston , in the assumed ...
... Sure of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . " - BOSWELL . Johnson's meaning , however , is , that a scholar who is a blockhead , must be the worst of all blockheads , because he is without excuse . But Bramston , in the assumed ...
Pagina 84
... sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " : This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity but there is no doubt ...
... sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " : This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity but there is no doubt ...
Pagina 90
... sure he told me that Mr. Cave was the first publisher by whom his pen was engaged in London . He had a little money when he came to town , and he knew how he could live in the cheapest manner . His first lodgings were at in the 24th ...
... sure he told me that Mr. Cave was the first publisher by whom his pen was engaged in London . He had a little money when he came to town , and he knew how he could live in the cheapest manner . His first lodgings were at in the 24th ...
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Pagina 215 - 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.
Pagina 59 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pagina 118 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Pagina 216 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Pagina 184 - 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...
Pagina 330 - He had sagacity enough to cultivate assiduously the acquaintance of Johnson, and his faculties were gradually enlarged by the contemplation of such a model. To me and many others it appeared that he studiously copied the manner of Johnson, though, indeed, upon a smaller scale.
Pagina 31 - But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from...
Pagina 205 - ... fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop...
Pagina 71 - James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pagina 241 - 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.