The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesG. Dearborn, 1835 - Authors, English |
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... consider your friendship as a possession , pamphlet ; and equally certain I desire you which I intend to hold till you take it from to think it , that if I had it , you should im- me , and to lament if ever by my fault Imediately ...
... consider your friendship as a possession , pamphlet ; and equally certain I desire you which I intend to hold till you take it from to think it , that if I had it , you should im- me , and to lament if ever by my fault Imediately ...
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... consider it at leisure , and favour me with his friendly opinion and advice . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " London , 15th January , 1776 . " DEAR SIR , -I was much impressed by your letter , and if I can form upon your case any ...
... consider it at leisure , and favour me with his friendly opinion and advice . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " London , 15th January , 1776 . " DEAR SIR , -I was much impressed by your letter , and if I can form upon your case any ...
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... consider your question upon general principles , and found nothing of much validity that I could oppose to this position : ' He who inherits a fief unlimited by his ancestors inherits the power of limit- ing it according to his own ...
... consider your question upon general principles , and found nothing of much validity that I could oppose to this position : ' He who inherits a fief unlimited by his ancestors inherits the power of limit- ing it according to his own ...
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... consider . - I am , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON 1. " Having arrived in London late on Fri- day , the 15th of March , I hastened next morning to wait on Dr. Johnson , at his house ; but found he was removed from Johnson's - court , No. 7 , to ...
... consider . - I am , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON 1. " Having arrived in London late on Fri- day , the 15th of March , I hastened next morning to wait on Dr. Johnson , at his house ; but found he was removed from Johnson's - court , No. 7 , to ...
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... consider myself as possessed of an idea the more . " ] I ob- served , that Foote entertained us with sto- ries which were not true ; but that , indeed , it was properly not as narratives that Foote's stories pleased us , but as ...
... consider myself as possessed of an idea the more . " ] I ob- served , that Foote entertained us with sto- ries which were not true ; but that , indeed , it was properly not as narratives that Foote's stories pleased us , but as ...
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Page 74 - Pray give me leave, Sir: — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Page 293 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor), Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 350 - I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has been long my custom, when I felt a confusion and indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse™. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very...
Page 140 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 176 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen (said he), Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.
Page 72 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — " Boswell: "Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you." Johnson: "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Page 283 - 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 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Page 145 - John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
Page 279 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his Letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps...