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 2 |
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... observe , he fet no example of rigorous adherence to the line of fucceffion . He that overlooked a brother , would not wonder that little regard is fhewn to remote relations . " As the rules of fucceffion are , in a great part , purely ...
... observe , he fet no example of rigorous adherence to the line of fucceffion . He that overlooked a brother , would not wonder that little regard is fhewn to remote relations . " As the rules of fucceffion are , in a great part , purely ...
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... observed that Garrick , who was about to quit the ftage , would foon have an eafier life . JOHNSON . " I doubt that , Sir . " BOSWELL . " Why , Sir , he will be Atlas with the burthen off his back . " JOHNSON . " But I know not , Sir ...
... observed that Garrick , who was about to quit the ftage , would foon have an eafier life . JOHNSON . " I doubt that , Sir . " BOSWELL . " Why , Sir , he will be Atlas with the burthen off his back . " JOHNSON . " But I know not , Sir ...
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... observed that Barclay speaks of infant baptifin , which they calmly made him perceive . Mr. Lloyd , how- ever , was ... observe days , merely as days , but as memorials of important facts . Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of ...
... observed that Barclay speaks of infant baptifin , which they calmly made him perceive . Mr. Lloyd , how- ever , was ... observe days , merely as days , but as memorials of important facts . Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of ...
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... observed them making fome faddle - cloths , and dreffing sheepskins : but upon the whole , the bufy hand of industry seemed to be quite flackened . " c Surely , Sir , ( faid I , ) you are an idle fet of people . " " Sir , ( faid Johnson ...
... observed them making fome faddle - cloths , and dreffing sheepskins : but upon the whole , the bufy hand of industry seemed to be quite flackened . " c Surely , Sir , ( faid I , ) you are an idle fet of people . " " Sir , ( faid Johnson ...
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... observations which he had made upon the ftrata of earth in volcanos , from which it appeared , that they were fo ... observe how Dr. Johnson would be be affected . He faid , " This is a 38 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... observations which he had made upon the ftrata of earth in volcanos , from which it appeared , that they were fo ... observe how Dr. Johnson would be be affected . He faid , " This is a 38 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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Page 158 - 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 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 155 - 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 504 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd 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.
Page 384 - 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...
Page 150 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Page 316 - 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 233 - 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 581 - So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Page 581 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality ; both from a regard for the order of society and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended...