The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 - Authors, English |
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... DEAR MR . CARLYLE , You were kind enough to encourage me to under- take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble ...
... DEAR MR . CARLYLE , You were kind enough to encourage me to under- take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble ...
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... letter was an answer ; and which he had read out : - " My dear Sir , -I beg leave to address you in behalf of our friend Dr. Percy , who was much hurt by what PREFACE . xxiii very natural speech the busybody proceeded to work, and...
... letter was an answer ; and which he had read out : - " My dear Sir , -I beg leave to address you in behalf of our friend Dr. Percy , who was much hurt by what PREFACE . xxiii very natural speech the busybody proceeded to work, and...
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... dear sir , never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice . The woman's a- -and there's an end on't . " " Boswell prints the offensive word in full . Beauclerk was dead when this appeared . Boswell appears , however , to have tried ...
... dear sir , never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice . The woman's a- -and there's an end on't . " " Boswell prints the offensive word in full . Beauclerk was dead when this appeared . Boswell appears , however , to have tried ...
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... DEAR SIR , EVERY liberal motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours , concurs in directing me to you , as the person to whom the following work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the ...
... DEAR SIR , EVERY liberal motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours , concurs in directing me to you , as the person to whom the following work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the ...
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... dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to wel- come me for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have ...
... dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to wel- come me for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have ...
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Page 158 - I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 137 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page lvi - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Page 212 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Page 183 - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his, but who was ever eminent for literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jen d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary: 'H seldom, perhaps never, begins any but the first syllable.
Page 288 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Page 85 - O thou whose pow'er o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path- motive, guide, original, and end.
Page 35 - But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account as given me by Dr. Adams, he said, 'Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power...
Page 119 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. 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...
Page 313 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.