The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5J. Murray, 1831 |
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Pagina 39
... character of Mr. Wilson is given by Dr. Whitaker in the dedication of a plate , in the History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomę Wilson STB ecclesię de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxdow insigni - felici juvenum ...
... character of Mr. Wilson is given by Dr. Whitaker in the dedication of a plate , in the History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomę Wilson STB ecclesię de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxdow insigni - felici juvenum ...
Pagina 40
... character ; and I know not upon what other supposition I can pass without censure or complaint the ceremony of your address . Let me not trifle time in words , to which while we speak or write them we assign little meaning . Whenever ...
... character ; and I know not upon what other supposition I can pass without censure or complaint the ceremony of your address . Let me not trifle time in words , to which while we speak or write them we assign little meaning . Whenever ...
Pagina 42
... character and new duties : think on them and practise them . " Make an impartial estimate of your revenue ; and whatever it is , live upon less . Resolve never to be poor . Frugality is not only the basis of quiet , but of beneficence ...
... character and new duties : think on them and practise them . " Make an impartial estimate of your revenue ; and whatever it is , live upon less . Resolve never to be poor . Frugality is not only the basis of quiet , but of beneficence ...
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... character , and the events of his life , when he does not choose it should be done . I never have sought the world ; the world was not to seek me . It is rather wonderful that so much has been done for me . All the com- plaints which ...
... character , and the events of his life , when he does not choose it should be done . I never have sought the world ; the world was not to seek me . It is rather wonderful that so much has been done for me . All the com- plaints which ...
Pagina 70
... character , which were widely different from his own . Maurice Morgann , Esq . , author of the very inge- nious " Essay on the Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his lordship , had once an op- portunity of ...
... character , which were widely different from his own . Maurice Morgann , Esq . , author of the very inge- nious " Essay on the Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his lordship , had once an op- portunity of ...
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Pagina 177 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Pagina 19 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no...
Pagina 108 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ?
Pagina 431 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Pagina 18 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
Pagina 249 - Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.
Pagina 262 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known, teach me by thy Holy Spirit, to withdraw my mind from unprofitable and dangerous enquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and doubts impossible to be solved.
Pagina 287 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Pagina 176 - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?" JOHNSON. "A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk; but I do not despair." MRS. ADAMS. " You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
Pagina 265 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault.