The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... sure he should . " JOHNSON : No , Sir ; he would give great offence . He would have to tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " GOLDSMITH : " It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ...
... sure he should . " JOHNSON : No , Sir ; he would give great offence . He would have to tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " GOLDSMITH : " It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ...
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... sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , that is not to the purpose of ...
... sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , that is not to the purpose of ...
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... sure , Sir . When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer , their inferior while he is with them , it must be highly gratifying to them . What Goldsmith comically says of himself is very true , he always gets ...
... sure , Sir . When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer , their inferior while he is with them , it must be highly gratifying to them . What Goldsmith comically says of himself is very true , he always gets ...
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... sure of its direction against the State . " JOHNSON : " The magistrate is to judge of that . He has no right to restrain your thinking , because the evil centres in yourself . If a man were sitting at his table , and chopping off his ...
... sure of its direction against the State . " JOHNSON : " The magistrate is to judge of that . He has no right to restrain your thinking , because the evil centres in yourself . If a man were sitting at his table , and chopping off his ...
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... sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality for the rest of the year . " I need not ...
... sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality for the rest of the year . " I need not ...
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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.