The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pages |
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... heard long ago , and did not know but it was 7 I fuppofe the complaint was , that the trustees of the Oxford prefs did not allow the London bookfellers a fufficient profit upon vending their publications . redreffed . redreffed . It is ...
... heard long ago , and did not know but it was 7 I fuppofe the complaint was , that the trustees of the Oxford prefs did not allow the London bookfellers a fufficient profit upon vending their publications . redreffed . redreffed . It is ...
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... heard him once give a very judicious practical advice upon this fubject : " A man , ( faid he , ) who has been drinking wine at all freely , fhould never go into a new company . With those who have partaken of wine with him , he may be ...
... heard him once give a very judicious practical advice upon this fubject : " A man , ( faid he , ) who has been drinking wine at all freely , fhould never go into a new company . With those who have partaken of wine with him , he may be ...
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... heard Dr. Percy was writing the hiftory of the wolf in Great - Britain . JOHNSON . " The wolf , Sir ; why the wolf ? Why does he not write of the bear , which we had formerly ? nay , it is faid we had the .beaver . Or why does he not ...
... heard Dr. Percy was writing the hiftory of the wolf in Great - Britain . JOHNSON . " The wolf , Sir ; why the wolf ? Why does he not write of the bear , which we had formerly ? nay , it is faid we had the .beaver . Or why does he not ...
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... heard him exprefs great difguft . Johnson had with him upon this jaunt , " Il Palermino d'Inghilterra , ” a romance praised by Cervantes ; but did not like it much . He faid , he read it for the language , by way of preparation for his ...
... heard him exprefs great difguft . Johnson had with him upon this jaunt , " Il Palermino d'Inghilterra , ” a romance praised by Cervantes ; but did not like it much . He faid , he read it for the language , by way of preparation for his ...
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... heard to - day , in his determination . to fend his own fon to Weftminster fchool . I introduced the topick , which is often ignorantly urged , that the Universities of England are too rich , fo that learning does not flourish in them ...
... heard to - day , in his determination . to fend his own fon to Weftminster fchool . I introduced the topick , which is often ignorantly urged , that the Universities of England are too rich , fo that learning does not flourish in them ...
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Page 350 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 83 - But he has wit too, and is not deficient in ideas, or in fertility and variety of imagery, and not empty of reading; he has knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands; but he's gone, Sir, when you think you have got him — like an animal that jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is under...
Page 157 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 458 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen, that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty ; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Page 390 - ... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. 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...
Page 152 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Page 160 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 235 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy*. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ', nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 318 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Page 253 - All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's