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James Boswell. subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to 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 ...
James Boswell. subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to 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 ...
Pagina 12
James Boswell. good people went , " and Hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ; and that it might be the better fixed in his memory , she sent him to repeat it to ...
James Boswell. good people went , " and Hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ; and that it might be the better fixed in his memory , she sent him to repeat it to ...
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James Boswell. HIS EARLY COMPOSITIONS Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart , Nor needs the guard of Moorish ...
James Boswell. HIS EARLY COMPOSITIONS Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart , Nor needs the guard of Moorish ...
Pagina 28
James Boswell. great deal in a desultory manner , without any scheme of study ; as chance threw books in his way , and inclination directed him through them . He used to mention one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy ...
James Boswell. great deal in a desultory manner , without any scheme of study ; as chance threw books in his way , and inclination directed him through them . He used to mention one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy ...
Pagina 41
James Boswell. LIFE AT OXFORD 41 in boasting of the many eminent men who had been edu- cated at Pembroke . In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins , the Poetry Professor , Mr. Shenstone , Sir William Blackstone , and others ; not ...
James Boswell. LIFE AT OXFORD 41 in boasting of the many eminent men who had been edu- cated at Pembroke . In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins , the Poetry Professor , Mr. Shenstone , Sir William Blackstone , and others ; not ...
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Pagina 186 - 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? 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,3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 187 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Pagina 186 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Pagina 371 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Pagina 142 - 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 186 - ... Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since 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...
Pagina 191 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Pagina 348 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pagina 401 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Pagina 505 - Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all