The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... attention of the company , Goldsmith in a passion threw down his hat , looking angrily at Johnson , and exclaiming in a bitter tone , " Take it . " When Toplady was going to speak , Johnson uttered some sound , which led Goldsmith to ...
... attention of the company , Goldsmith in a passion threw down his hat , looking angrily at Johnson , and exclaiming in a bitter tone , " Take it . " When Toplady was going to speak , Johnson uttered some sound , which led Goldsmith to ...
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... attention which was every where paid to Johnson . One evening , in a circle of wits , he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestion- able superiority . " Sir , " said he , " you are for making a ...
... attention which was every where paid to Johnson . One evening , in a circle of wits , he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestion- able superiority . " Sir , " said he , " you are for making a ...
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... attention , while he was our guest ; so that I wonder how he discovered her wishing for his departure . The truth is , that his irregular hours and uncouth habits , such as turning the candles with their heads downwards , when they did ...
... attention , while he was our guest ; so that I wonder how he discovered her wishing for his departure . The truth is , that his irregular hours and uncouth habits , such as turning the candles with their heads downwards , when they did ...
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... attention to his little specimen . The farther specimen will show , that " Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of Isaac Walton's ' Lives ' is intended . You have been in a ...
... attention to his little specimen . The farther specimen will show , that " Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of Isaac Walton's ' Lives ' is intended . You have been in a ...
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... attention , though the actual sight of those scenes undoubtedly quickened and augmented them . Mr. Orme , the very able historian , agreed with me in this opinion , which he thus strongly expressed : - " There are in that book thoughts ...
... attention , though the actual sight of those scenes undoubtedly quickened and augmented them . Mr. Orme , the very able historian , agreed with me in this opinion , which he thus strongly expressed : - " There are in that book thoughts ...
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Page 366 - 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 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 370 - 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 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Page 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Page 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Page 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Page 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Page 300 - 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.