The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Volume 61835 |
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Pagina 37
... respect and deference ; and I had reason to apprehend disagreeable consequences from my non - compliance with his wishes . After much perplexity and uneasiness , I wrote to Dr. John- son , stating the case , with all its difficulties ...
... respect and deference ; and I had reason to apprehend disagreeable consequences from my non - compliance with his wishes . After much perplexity and uneasiness , I wrote to Dr. John- son , stating the case , with all its difficulties ...
Pagina 46
... respects to Veronica , and Euphemia , and Alexander . " I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " LETTER 238. FROM MR . BOSWELL . 66 Edinburgh , Feb. 20. 1776 . " You have illuminated my mind , and relieved me from ...
... respects to Veronica , and Euphemia , and Alexander . " I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " LETTER 238. FROM MR . BOSWELL . 66 Edinburgh , Feb. 20. 1776 . " You have illuminated my mind , and relieved me from ...
Pagina 54
... respect Mr. Johnson ; but you and I love him . " He seemed very happy in the near prospect of going to Italy with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale . " But , " said he , “ before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford , Birmingham , my native ...
... respect Mr. Johnson ; but you and I love him . " He seemed very happy in the near prospect of going to Italy with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale . " But , " said he , “ before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford , Birmingham , my native ...
Pagina 64
... respect . Finding him still persevering in his abstinence from wine , I ventured to speak to him of it . JOHNSON . " Sir , I have no objection to a man's drinking wine , if he can do it in moderation . I found myself apt to go to excess ...
... respect . Finding him still persevering in his abstinence from wine , I ventured to speak to him of it . JOHNSON . " Sir , I have no objection to a man's drinking wine , if he can do it in moderation . I found myself apt to go to excess ...
Pagina 65
... to have little other intellectual power . See accounts of Buxton in Gent . Mag . vol . xxi . p . 61. and vol . xxiv . p . 251. — C. VOL . VI . F the powers of different men , in that respect , ETAT . 67 . 65 EDUCATION .
... to have little other intellectual power . See accounts of Buxton in Gent . Mag . vol . xxi . p . 61. and vol . xxiv . p . 251. — C. VOL . VI . F the powers of different men , in that respect , ETAT . 67 . 65 EDUCATION .
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Pagina 184 - Wednesday I called on him about half an hour before dinner, as I often did when we were to dine out together, to see that he was ready in time, and to accompany him. I found him buffeting his books, as upon a former occasion, covered with dust, and making no preparation for going abroad.
Pagina 305 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Pagina 205 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Pagina 118 - Depend upon it, Sir, this is not true. A woman of fortune being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously: but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
Pagina 183 - I therefore, while we were sitting quietly by ourselves at his house in an evening, took occasion to open my plan thus : — 'Mr. Dilly, Sir, sends his respectful compliments to you, and would be happy if you would do him the honour to dine with him on Wednesday next along with me, as I must soon go to Scotland.
Pagina 242 - Th' oblivious grave's inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless merriment or useful sense. Where aught of bright or fair the piece displays, Approve it only — 'tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound.
Pagina 221 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pagina 296 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray: Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ?'" BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, sir?" JOHNSON. " Why to shew he was in earnest...
Pagina 182 - I conceived an irresistible wish, if possible, to bring Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes together. How to manage it, was a nice and difficult matter. My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some more gentlemen, on Wednesday, May 15. "Pray (said I) let us have Dr. Johnson."—"What with Mr. Wilkes?...
Pagina 82 - He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.