The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Volume 21851 |
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Pagina 18
... particular account of this gentleman may be found in a note on the " Life of Dryden , " p . 186 , prefixed to the edition of that great writer's Prose Works , in four volumes 8vo . 1800 : in which his character is vindicated , and the ...
... particular account of this gentleman may be found in a note on the " Life of Dryden , " p . 186 , prefixed to the edition of that great writer's Prose Works , in four volumes 8vo . 1800 : in which his character is vindicated , and the ...
Pagina 19
... particular en- couragements and presents above their wages : it is remarkable that he would permit their relations to visit them , and stay at his house two or three days at a time . " The wonder , with most that hear an account of his ...
... particular en- couragements and presents above their wages : it is remarkable that he would permit their relations to visit them , and stay at his house two or three days at a time . " The wonder , with most that hear an account of his ...
Pagina 48
... particular praised his " Conduct of the Allies . " JOHNSON : Sir , his Conduct of the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . " " Surely , Sir , " said Dr. Douglas , you must allow it has strong facts . " 1 JOHNSON : 66 66 66 ...
... particular praised his " Conduct of the Allies . " JOHNSON : Sir , his Conduct of the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . " " Surely , Sir , " said Dr. Douglas , you must allow it has strong facts . " 1 JOHNSON : 66 66 66 ...
Pagina 53
... particular cases of necessity ; and there can be no just complaint but when it is abused , for which those who administer government must be answerable . It is a matter of such indifference , a matter about which the people care so very ...
... particular cases of necessity ; and there can be no just complaint but when it is abused , for which those who administer government must be answerable . It is a matter of such indifference , a matter about which the people care so very ...
Pagina 58
... particular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we cannot know the language . We may know the direct signifi- cation of single words ; but by these no beauty of expression , no sally of genius , no wit is conveyed ...
... particular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we cannot know the language . We may know the direct signifi- cation of single words ; but by these no beauty of expression , no sally of genius , no wit is conveyed ...
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Pagina 102 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Pagina 258 - Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question.
Pagina 120 - Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.
Pagina 12 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Pagina 61 - I think that essay does her honour." JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book.
Pagina 140 - He was then very merry, and talked occasionally of many things with his attendants. Among other things, he said, that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life, he could not be a lawyer, adding his reasons : 'I cannot (saith he,) defend a bad, nor yield in a good cause.
Pagina 111 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Pagina 82 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 258 - ... had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." " Sir," said I, " I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you.
Pagina 113 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.