The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent & Company, 1901 - Authors, English |
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... talk , everything was " as correct as a second edition " ; and his visitor found it impossible to argue with him , he was " so sententious and so knowing . " From Inner Temple Lane , Johnson migrated to No. 7 , Johnson's Court , where ...
... talk , everything was " as correct as a second edition " ; and his visitor found it impossible to argue with him , he was " so sententious and so knowing . " From Inner Temple Lane , Johnson migrated to No. 7 , Johnson's Court , where ...
Page xiv
... talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not be " as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . Boswell's well - known account of devoted No. 206 of ...
... talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not be " as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . Boswell's well - known account of devoted No. 206 of ...
Page xvii
... probably the third of the name , since there was talk of Edwards's Canons of Criticism , which was only published under that title in 1748 , when Jacob the First b and Jacob the Second had been gathered to their fathers. INTRODUCTION xvii.
... probably the third of the name , since there was talk of Edwards's Canons of Criticism , which was only published under that title in 1748 , when Jacob the First b and Jacob the Second had been gathered to their fathers. INTRODUCTION xvii.
Page xxiii
... talk , from his notes , must have been excellent , digressing from Gray and Goldsmith to ghosts and other themes , which ( with the wine ) and " the orthodox high - church sound of the MITRE , " produced in Boswell " a variety of ...
... talk , from his notes , must have been excellent , digressing from Gray and Goldsmith to ghosts and other themes , which ( with the wine ) and " the orthodox high - church sound of the MITRE , " produced in Boswell " a variety of ...
Page xxxv
... from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his dis- course at other periods had been collected with the same XXXV.
... from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his dis- course at other periods had been collected with the same XXXV.
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Page 167 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 167 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 166 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 283 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Page 121 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Page 58 - Lichfield as an officer of the army, and had at this time a house in London, where Johnson was frequently entertained, and had an opportunity of meeting genteel company. Not very long before his death he mentioned this, among other particulars of his life, which he was kindly communicating to me ; and he described this early friend, " Harry Hervey," thus : " He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.
Page 336 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 304 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 225 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.
Page 438 - I from concealing her, that my wife had at that time almost as numerous an acquaintance in London as I had myself; and was, not very long after, kindly invited and elegantly entertained at Streatham by Mr.