The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pages |
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Ętat afterwards againſt almoſt alſo anſwer aſked aſſiſtance authour becauſe beſt BOSWELL cauſe circumſtance confiderable confidered converſation DEAR SIR defire diftinguiſhed Engliſh Eſſay Etat expreſſed faid fame fatire favour firſt fome foon fuch fuffer fure Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine Goldſmith himſelf Hiſtory honour houſe humble ſervant inſtance intereſt itſelf JAMES BOSWELL JOHNSON juſt Langton laſt leſs letter Lichfield London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter maſter mentioned mind Miſs moſt muſt myſelf neceſſary never obſerved occafion paſſage paſſed perſon pleaſed pleaſure poem praiſe preſent preſerved propoſed publick publiſhed queſtion reaſon reſpect ſaid ſame ſay ſcholar ſchool Scotland ſee ſeemed ſeen ſenſe ſenſible ſeveral Shakſpeare ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir Joshua ſmall ſociety ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtrong ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe talk theſe THOMAS WARTON thoſe thought told tranſlation Univerſity uſed verſes viſit whoſe wiſh write wrote
Popular passages
Page 139 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 294 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Page 140 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Page 140 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 223 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 241 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Page 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 248 - 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 289 - His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal ; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read ; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others : for instance, he said he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.
Page 255 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.