The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4Derby & Jackson, 1859 - Authors, English |
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... instance , I am curious to see if this frost has not nipped my fruit trees . " JOHNSON ( who we did not imagine was attending ) . " You find , Sir , you have fears as well as hopes . " So well did he see the whole , when another saw but ...
... instance , I am curious to see if this frost has not nipped my fruit trees . " JOHNSON ( who we did not imagine was attending ) . " You find , Sir , you have fears as well as hopes . " So well did he see the whole , when another saw but ...
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... men of superior abilities , he wondered that Fortune , who is represented as blind , should , in this instance , have been so just . " justly considered as due to it . Of this , ETAT . 69 . 19 CHOICE OF A PROFESSION .
... men of superior abilities , he wondered that Fortune , who is represented as blind , should , in this instance , have been so just . " justly considered as due to it . Of this , ETAT . 69 . 19 CHOICE OF A PROFESSION .
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... instances may be men- tioned . He told Sir Joshua Reynolds , that once when he dined in a numerons company of booksellers , where the room , being small , the head of the table , at which he sat , was almost close to the fire , he ...
... instances may be men- tioned . He told Sir Joshua Reynolds , that once when he dined in a numerons company of booksellers , where the room , being small , the head of the table , at which he sat , was almost close to the fire , he ...
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... instance which I discovered of his seeking after a man of merit . Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent " Observations on the Statutes , " Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gen- 1 In the ...
... instance which I discovered of his seeking after a man of merit . Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent " Observations on the Statutes , " Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gen- 1 In the ...
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... instance of a gentleman , who I thought was not dishonoured by it . JOHNSON . " Ay , but he was , Sir . He could not mouth and strut as he used to do , after having been there . People are not willing to ask a man to their tables , who ...
... instance of a gentleman , who I thought was not dishonoured by it . JOHNSON . " Ay , but he was , Sir . He could not mouth and strut as he used to do , after having been there . People are not willing to ask a man to their tables , who ...
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Page 192 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 218 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Page 34 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless...
Page 218 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 442 - For some time before his death, all his fears were calmed and absorbed by the prevalence of his faith, and his trust in the merits and propitiation of Jesus Christ. "He talked often to me about the necessity of faith in the sacrifice of Jesus, as necessary beyond all good works •whatever for the salvation of mankind.
Page 430 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 450 - ... and acts of goodness, however comparatively great; so that the unavoidable consciousness of his superiority was, in that respect, a cause of disquiet. He suffered so much from this, and from the gloom which perpetually haunted him, and made solitude frightful, that it may be said of him, " If in this life only he had hope, he was of all men most miserable.
Page 208 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 106 - ... his head on a horse's back, he would collect a multitude to hear him ; but no wise man would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the lower classes of mankind, and among them he was of use. But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.
Page 53 - ... second time. When he came up, he asked some of the people of the house what Ford could be doing there. They told him Ford was dead. The waiter took a fever, in which he lay for some time. When he recovered he said he had a message to deliver to some women from Ford ; but he was not to tell what, or to whom. He walked out; he was followed, but somewhere about St. Paul's they lost him. He came back, and said he had delivered the message, and the women exclaimed, " Then we are all undone !