The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5J. Murray, 1831 |
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... pleased to furnish me . However slight in itself , as it does honour to that illustrious painter and most amiable man , I am happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " 23d June , 1781 . " DEAR SIR , -It was not before ...
... pleased to furnish me . However slight in itself , as it does honour to that illustrious painter and most amiable man , I am happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " 23d June , 1781 . " DEAR SIR , -It was not before ...
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... pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long silence . The letter relating to Mr. Sinclair , however , was , I believe ...
... pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long silence . The letter relating to Mr. Sinclair , however , was , I believe ...
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... pleased that he remembers me , and hope that it never can be possible for me to forget him . July 22d , 1782 . " I am much delighted even with the small advances which dear Dr. Law- rence makes towards recovery . If we could have again ...
... pleased that he remembers me , and hope that it never can be possible for me to forget him . July 22d , 1782 . " I am much delighted even with the small advances which dear Dr. Law- rence makes towards recovery . If we could have again ...
Pagina 18
... every hour that went by , Beyond all that had pleased me before ; But now they are gone and I sigh , And I grieve that I prized them no more . " - J . BOSWELL . good be increased , and whatever you suffer of evil 18 1782. - ETAT . 73 .
... every hour that went by , Beyond all that had pleased me before ; But now they are gone and I sigh , And I grieve that I prized them no more . " - J . BOSWELL . good be increased , and whatever you suffer of evil 18 1782. - ETAT . 73 .
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... pleased to preserve me from neglect ; I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply . My health has been , from my twen- tieth year , such as had seldom afforded me a single day of ease ; but it is at least not ...
... pleased to preserve me from neglect ; I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply . My health has been , from my twen- tieth year , such as had seldom afforded me a single day of ease ; but it is at least not ...
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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.