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Pagina i
... bookseller in Lichfield , but extended his business by travelling with a portion of his goods to the neighbouring towns on market - days , and particularly to Birmingham . Michael Johnson had a brother named Andrew , who for some years ...
... bookseller in Lichfield , but extended his business by travelling with a portion of his goods to the neighbouring towns on market - days , and particularly to Birmingham . Michael Johnson had a brother named Andrew , who for some years ...
Pagina ix
... bookseller there . In this situa- tion , Johnson executed what may be considered as his first literary work , being a translation from the French of a Voyage to Abyssinia , written by Je- rome Lobo , a Portuguese missionary , who ...
... bookseller there . In this situa- tion , Johnson executed what may be considered as his first literary work , being a translation from the French of a Voyage to Abyssinia , written by Je- rome Lobo , a Portuguese missionary , who ...
Pagina xvi
... booksellers , none of whom would purchase it . Mr Cave at last communi- cated it to Dodsley , who had taste enough to per- ceive its uncommon merit , and thought it " credit- " able to be concerned with it . " Dodsley gave him ten ...
... booksellers , none of whom would purchase it . Mr Cave at last communi- cated it to Dodsley , who had taste enough to per- ceive its uncommon merit , and thought it " credit- " able to be concerned with it . " Dodsley gave him ten ...
Pagina xvii
... booksellers . He published va- rious small pieces ; but his employment as a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine was that upon which he chiefly depended . One of his small pieces was called the " Marmor Norfolciense ; or an Essay " on an ...
... booksellers . He published va- rious small pieces ; but his employment as a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine was that upon which he chiefly depended . One of his small pieces was called the " Marmor Norfolciense ; or an Essay " on an ...
Pagina xxi
... bookseller in Gray's Inn , who had pur- chased the Earl of Oxford's library for 13,000 1 . to write a catalogue of the books , containing short descriptions of each . It appears that Osborne , on one occasion , insolently complained ...
... bookseller in Gray's Inn , who had pur- chased the Earl of Oxford's library for 13,000 1 . to write a catalogue of the books , containing short descriptions of each . It appears that Osborne , on one occasion , insolently complained ...
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Pagina xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Pagina xxxii - 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.
Pagina 20 - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
Pagina 15 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Pagina xxxiv - 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.
Pagina 23 - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
Pagina lix - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Pagina 21 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Pagina xlix - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
Pagina 21 - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...