The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... less at- tainable . " I could , with pleasure , expatiate upon the mas- terly execution of the Life of DRYDEN , which we have seen ' was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable that , after ...
... less at- tainable . " I could , with pleasure , expatiate upon the mas- terly execution of the Life of DRYDEN , which we have seen ' was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable that , after ...
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... [ less trouble ] more facility . 66 " No man sympathizes with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his pen . 66 Society ...
... [ less trouble ] more facility . 66 " No man sympathizes with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his pen . 66 Society ...
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... less airy , is less pleasing . " In the Life of BLACKMORE we find that writer's reputation generously cleared by Johnson from the cloud of prejudice which the malignity of contemporary wits had raised around it . In this spirited ...
... less airy , is less pleasing . " In the Life of BLACKMORE we find that writer's reputation generously cleared by Johnson from the cloud of prejudice which the malignity of contemporary wits had raised around it . In this spirited ...
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... less information than he had hoped to receive from one who had lived so much in intercourse with the brightest men of what has been called the Augustan age of England ; and that he showed a degree of eager curiosity concerning the com ...
... less information than he had hoped to receive from one who had lived so much in intercourse with the brightest men of what has been called the Augustan age of England ; and that he showed a degree of eager curiosity concerning the com ...
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... less remote , and less illustrious than India , which afforded some occasions for speculation ; what has occurred to me I have put into the volume3 , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents totally ...
... less remote , and less illustrious than India , which afforded some occasions for speculation ; what has occurred to me I have put into the volume3 , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents totally ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admirable answered appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention authour believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop Brocklesby Burke Burney called character Club compliments consider conversation curious death desire dined dropsy edition eminent entertained expressed favour Francis Barber gentleman give glad happy honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL kind lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Eliot Lordship LUCY PORTER Lusiad madam manner mentioned merit mind Miss never obliged observed occasion once opinion Pembroke College perhaps person pleased pleasure poet pounds praise prayers pretty woman publick recollect remark respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed sick Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told verses Whig Wilkes wish wonder write written wrote young
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Page 60 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 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; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 42 - 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 75 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings ; ' and thus by degrees the title was established.
Page 11 - Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Page 340 - Spirit, to withdraw my mind from unprofitable and dangerous inquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and doubts impossible to be solved. Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted, let me serve Thee with active zeal and humble confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge. Grant this, O Lord, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
Page 29 - ... 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 what a lawful claimant may take away.
Page 73 - 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 ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of...
Page 282 - Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman ; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, " I don't understand you, Sir ; " upon which Johnson observed, " Sir, I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Page 343 - I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Page 64 - 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.