The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder , I know not in what state it has left you . If the amusement of my company can exhilarate the languor of a slow recovery , I will not delay a day to ...
... known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder , I know not in what state it has left you . If the amusement of my company can exhilarate the languor of a slow recovery , I will not delay a day to ...
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... known . " 1 A young student of Oxford , of the name of Barclay , wrote an answer to Kenrick's review of Johnson's " Shaks- peare . " Johnson was at first angry that Kenrick's attack should have the credit of an answer . But afterwards ...
... known . " 1 A young student of Oxford , of the name of Barclay , wrote an answer to Kenrick's review of Johnson's " Shaks- peare . " Johnson was at first angry that Kenrick's attack should have the credit of an answer . But afterwards ...
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... known , Leave reason , faith , and conscience all our own . " He added , " These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in ...
... known , Leave reason , faith , and conscience all our own . " He added , " These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in ...
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... known nothing of you or of Langton , from the time that dear Miss Langton left us , had not I met Mr. Simpson , of Lincoln , one day in the street , by whom I was informed that Mr. Langton , your mamma , and yourself , had been all ill ...
... known nothing of you or of Langton , from the time that dear Miss Langton left us , had not I met Mr. Simpson , of Lincoln , one day in the street , by whom I was informed that Mr. Langton , your mamma , and yourself , had been all ill ...
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... not suffer to employ his whole income : for he had always a sum of money lying by him for any extraordinary expenses that might " His art of life certainly deserves to be known II . D ET . 57 . 33 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... not suffer to employ his whole income : for he had always a sum of money lying by him for any extraordinary expenses that might " His art of life certainly deserves to be known II . D ET . 57 . 33 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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Page 314 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Page 24 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, 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...