The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina xix
... labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity ...
... labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity ...
Pagina xxi
... labour , I do not wish to conceal ; but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
... labour , I do not wish to conceal ; but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
Pagina xxxii
... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , JULIUS CÆSAR , of whom Bacon observes , that " In his book of Apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , JULIUS CÆSAR , of whom Bacon observes , that " In his book of Apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
Pagina 11
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools . " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools . " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
Pagina 22
... labour under acute diseases , others to be in extreme poverty ; when , in truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson ...
... labour under acute diseases , others to be in extreme poverty ; when , in truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson ...
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