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 Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... Langton , Bennet , Efq . i . 133 , 260 , 444 ; ii . 149 , 219 , 273 , 4 , 493 , 4 , 576 . Johnfon's letters to him , i . 352 ; ii . 122 , 276 , 409 , 419 , 466 , 484 , 5 , 537 , 544 . communications from , as to Johnfon , ii . 329 ...
... Langton , Bennet , Efq . i . 133 , 260 , 444 ; ii . 149 , 219 , 273 , 4 , 493 , 4 , 576 . Johnfon's letters to him , i . 352 ; ii . 122 , 276 , 409 , 419 , 466 , 484 , 5 , 537 , 544 . communications from , as to Johnfon , ii . 329 ...
Pagina 14
... Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo accurate a know- ledge of Latin , in which , I believe , he was exceeded by no man of his time , he said , " My mafter whipt me very well . Without that , Sir , I should have done nothing ...
... Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo accurate a know- ledge of Latin , in which , I believe , he was exceeded by no man of his time , he said , " My mafter whipt me very well . Without that , Sir , I should have done nothing ...
Pagina 51
... Langton made a fair and diftinct copy of it , which he ordered to be bound up with the original and the printed tragedy ; and the volume is depofited in the King's library . His Majefty was pleased to permit Mr. Langton to take a copy ...
... Langton made a fair and diftinct copy of it , which he ordered to be bound up with the original and the printed tragedy ; and the volume is depofited in the King's library . His Majefty was pleased to permit Mr. Langton to take a copy ...
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... Langton . 66 In this poem one of the inftances mentioned of unfortunate learned men is Lydiat : " Hear Lydiat's life , and Galileo's end . " The hiftory of Lydiat being little known , the following account of him may be acceptable to ...
... Langton . 66 In this poem one of the inftances mentioned of unfortunate learned men is Lydiat : " Hear Lydiat's life , and Galileo's end . " The hiftory of Lydiat being little known , the following account of him may be acceptable to ...
Pagina 132
... much do you think you and I could get in a week , if we were to work as hard as we could ? " as if they had been common mechanicks . 1752 . His acquaintance with Bennet Langton , Efq . His 132 THE LIFE OF OF DR . JOHNSON .
... much do you think you and I could get in a week , if we were to work as hard as we could ? " as if they had been common mechanicks . 1752 . His acquaintance with Bennet Langton , Efq . His 132 THE LIFE OF OF DR . JOHNSON .
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Pagina 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pagina 243 - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pagina 225 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 141 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Pagina 68 - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you...
Pagina 40 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Pagina 141 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Pagina 2 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Pagina 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pagina 68 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.