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Pagina x
... remarkable that occurred ; and he afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the inevitable deficiencies of these hasty memoranda . 1 Mr. Wordsworth has obligingly furnished the editor with the following copy of a note in a ...
... remarkable that occurred ; and he afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the inevitable deficiencies of these hasty memoranda . 1 Mr. Wordsworth has obligingly furnished the editor with the following copy of a note in a ...
Pagina xiii
... remarkable for some peculiar merit , or which might tend to complete the history of Johnson's life . In the large extracts which have been made from Mrs. Thrale's correspondence , he has been guided entirely by this latter object . The ...
... remarkable for some peculiar merit , or which might tend to complete the history of Johnson's life . In the large extracts which have been made from Mrs. Thrale's correspondence , he has been guided entirely by this latter object . The ...
Pagina 11
... remarkable , even in his earliest years , may easily be supposed ; for to use his own words in his Life of Sydenham , " That the strength of his under- standing , the accuracy of his discernment , and the ardour of his curiosity , might ...
... remarkable , even in his earliest years , may easily be supposed ; for to use his own words in his Life of Sydenham , " That the strength of his under- standing , the accuracy of his discernment , and the ardour of his curiosity , might ...
Pagina 22
... remarkable , and does honour to human nature . Talking to me once him- self of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , 66 they never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a ...
... remarkable , and does honour to human nature . Talking to me once him- self of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , 66 they never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a ...
Pagina 48
... remarkable instance in the Monthly Chronicle for November , 1729. " About this time , the Rev. Mr. Jorden , B. D. , Fellow of Pembroke College , in Oxford , was presented by Mr. Vyse , a young gentleman , his pupil , to the rectory of ...
... remarkable instance in the Monthly Chronicle for November , 1729. " About this time , the Rev. Mr. Jorden , B. D. , Fellow of Pembroke College , in Oxford , was presented by Mr. Vyse , a young gentleman , his pupil , to the rectory of ...
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Pagina 250 - 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 public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Pagina 250 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Pagina 280 - 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 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Pagina 379 - 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 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
Pagina 38 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Pagina 298 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
Pagina 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?