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... writes a regular journal of our travels , which I think contains as much of what I say and do , as of all other occurrences together ; for such a faithful chronicler is Griffith . ' " PREFATORY NOTICE . No memoirs were ever perhaps more ...
... writes a regular journal of our travels , which I think contains as much of what I say and do , as of all other occurrences together ; for such a faithful chronicler is Griffith . ' " PREFATORY NOTICE . No memoirs were ever perhaps more ...
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James Boswell. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled ...
James Boswell. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled ...
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... writing . Since my work was announced , several lives and me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ; the most ... writer who has greatly injured him . Let me add , that though I doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify sir ...
... writing . Since my work was announced , several lives and me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ; the most ... writer who has greatly injured him . Let me add , that though I doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify sir ...
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... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
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... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ... writes from personal knowledge , and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity , there is dan- ger lest his ...
... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ... writes from personal knowledge , and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity , there is dan- ger lest his ...
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Pagina 199 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 362 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Pagina 167 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 228 - 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 198 - 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. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Pagina 198 - World, that two papers, in which my 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 46 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope, that at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " 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 147 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Pagina 307 - But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...
Pagina xv - Marmor Norfolciense ; or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne, in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus...