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, Volume 3National ilustrated library, 1863 |
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... kindness ; and , Sir , this is better done where there is no solid conversation ; for when there is , people differ in opinion , and get fully vindicated Dr. Johnson from the idle censures which the first of these notes has given rise ...
... kindness ; and , Sir , this is better done where there is no solid conversation ; for when there is , people differ in opinion , and get fully vindicated Dr. Johnson from the idle censures which the first of these notes has given rise ...
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... kindness . " Sir , " said he , " you are very welcome . Nobody repays it with more . " How very false is the notion that has gone round the world , of the rough , and passionate , and harsh manners of this great and good man . That he ...
... kindness . " Sir , " said he , " you are very welcome . Nobody repays it with more . " How very false is the notion that has gone round the world , of the rough , and passionate , and harsh manners of this great and good man . That he ...
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... kindness because she is my acquaintance . should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , Sir , how you should feel , were you to find , at Rotterdam , an epitaph upon Erasmus in Dutch ! " For my own part , I think it would be ...
... kindness because she is my acquaintance . should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , Sir , how you should feel , were you to find , at Rotterdam , an epitaph upon Erasmus in Dutch ! " For my own part , I think it would be ...
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... kindness and sincerity , dear Sir , " Your humble servant , " SAM JOHNSON . " It was last year determined by Lord Mansfield , in the Court of King's Bench , that a negro cannot be taken out of the kingdom without his own consent . " 1 ...
... kindness and sincerity , dear Sir , " Your humble servant , " SAM JOHNSON . " It was last year determined by Lord Mansfield , in the Court of King's Bench , that a negro cannot be taken out of the kingdom without his own consent . " 1 ...
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... kindness , and who is now abroad in distress . I shall be glad that you will be pleased to show him any little countenance , or pay him any small distinction . How much it is in your power to favour or to forward a young man I do not ...
... kindness , and who is now abroad in distress . I shall be glad that you will be pleased to show him any little countenance , or pay him any small distinction . How much it is in your power to favour or to forward a young man I do not ...
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Page 87 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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.
Page 87 - 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 47 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 106 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 90 - 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 103 - O SOLITUDE, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread, Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb, Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide, Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep, Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble waste survey ; You, recluse, again I woo, And again your steps pursue.
Page 191 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe...
Page 56 - ... from England, you would amplify knowledge with new views and new objects. Set about it therefore, if you can: do what you can easily do without anxious exactness. Lay the foundation, and leave the superstructure to posterity. I am, Sir, 'Your most humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.
Page 23 - Wednesday I called on him about half an hour before dinner, as I often did when we were to dine out together, to see that he was ready in time, and to accompany him. I found him buffeting his books, as upon a former occasion, covered with dust, and making no preparation for going abroad. "How is this, sir? (said I). Don't you recollect that you are to dine at Mr. Dilly's?" Johnson: "Sir, I did not think of going to Dilly's: it went out of my head. I have ordered dinner at home with Mrs. Williams.
Page 23 - Well, Sir, and what then? What care / for his patriotic friends? Poh!" BOSWELL. "I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. "And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.