The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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Pagina 13
... given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compli- ment to the first , by shewing that she made him so happy as a mar- ried man , that he wishes to be so a second time . " So ingenious a turn did ...
... given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compli- ment to the first , by shewing that she made him so happy as a mar- ried man , that he wishes to be so a second time . " So ingenious a turn did ...
Pagina 27
... given only to vanity or softness . " Canter , indeed , was he none : he would forget to ask people after the health of their nearest relations , and say , in excuse , " That he knew they did not care : why should they ? " said he ...
... given only to vanity or softness . " Canter , indeed , was he none : he would forget to ask people after the health of their nearest relations , and say , in excuse , " That he knew they did not care : why should they ? " said he ...
Pagina 52
... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works , he remarked , that they tended to un- settle everything , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to ...
... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works , he remarked , that they tended to un- settle everything , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to ...
Pagina 55
... given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which , if ...
... given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which , if ...
Pagina 58
... given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the present instance ( as Mr. J. Boswell observes to me ) , " the author of the poem ...
... given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the present instance ( as Mr. J. Boswell observes to me ) , " the author of the poem ...
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