The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble at- tendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped while he sat upon his back , and ...
... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble at- tendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped while he sat upon his back , and ...
Pagina 34
... desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an answer . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' TO MR . CAVE . [ No date . ] ' SIR , -I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commentary cannot be ...
... desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an answer . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' TO MR . CAVE . [ No date . ] ' SIR , -I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commentary cannot be ...
Pagina 38
... desire in that respect , it would be a great satisfaction , as well as an honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under ...
... desire in that respect , it would be a great satisfaction , as well as an honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under ...
Pagina 48
... desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold of this as a pretext for delay , that it might be better done , and let Dodsley have his desire . I said to my friend , Dr. Bathurst , " Now if any good comes of my ...
... desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold of this as a pretext for delay , that it might be better done , and let Dodsley have his desire . I said to my friend , Dr. Bathurst , " Now if any good comes of my ...
Pagina 62
... desire , there will be added to the masque a dramatic satire , called Lethe , in which Mr. Garrick will perform . ' In 1751 we are to consider him as carrying on both his Dictionary and Rambler . But he also wrote ' The Life of Cheynel ...
... desire , there will be added to the masque a dramatic satire , called Lethe , in which Mr. Garrick will perform . ' In 1751 we are to consider him as carrying on both his Dictionary and Rambler . But he also wrote ' The Life of Cheynel ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams wish write written wrote
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Pagina 72 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Pagina 72 - 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. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Pagina 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 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.
Pagina 72 - 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 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Pagina 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Pagina 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Pagina 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Pagina 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.