The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... pleased , passions which may be roused . Lord Chesterfield being mentioned , Johnson remarked , that almost all of that celebrated nobleman's witty sayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his Lordship's ...
... pleased , passions which may be roused . Lord Chesterfield being mentioned , Johnson remarked , that almost all of that celebrated nobleman's witty sayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his Lordship's ...
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... pleased , without any apprehension of danger , have turned aside , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " On Tuesday , April 27 , Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning . As we walked up Johnson's Court , I said , " I ...
... pleased , without any apprehension of danger , have turned aside , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " On Tuesday , April 27 , Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning . As we walked up Johnson's Court , I said , " I ...
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... I told him that I had received a letter from Dr. Robertson the historian , upon the subject , with which he was much pleased , and GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY 21 now talked in such a manner 20 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... I told him that I had received a letter from Dr. Robertson the historian , upon the subject , with which he was much pleased , and GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY 21 now talked in such a manner 20 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... pleased to grant .'- No modern flattery , however , is so gross as that of the Augustan age , where the Emperor was deified . Præsens Divus habebitur Augustus . And as to meanness , ( rising into warmth , ) how is it mean in a player ...
... pleased to grant .'- No modern flattery , however , is so gross as that of the Augustan age , where the Emperor was deified . Præsens Divus habebitur Augustus . And as to meanness , ( rising into warmth , ) how is it mean in a player ...
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... pleased to honour it by a very extensive circulation , I beg leave to refer , as to a separate and remarkable portion of his life , which may be there seen in detail , and which exhibits as striking a view of his powers in conversation ...
... pleased to honour it by a very extensive circulation , I beg leave to refer , as to a separate and remarkable portion of his life , which may be there seen in detail , and which exhibits as striking a view of his powers in conversation ...
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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.
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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.