The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... shews so little learning or taste in writing , as to make Carteret a dactyl . - In matters of genealogy it is necessary to give the bare names as they are ; but in poetry , and in prose of any elegance in the writ- ing , they require to ...
... shews so little learning or taste in writing , as to make Carteret a dactyl . - In matters of genealogy it is necessary to give the bare names as they are ; but in poetry , and in prose of any elegance in the writ- ing , they require to ...
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... shew . As he was so good as to make me a present of the greatest part of the original , and indeed only manuscript of this admirable work , I have an opportunity of observ- ing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck ...
... shew . As he was so good as to make me a present of the greatest part of the original , and indeed only manuscript of this admirable work , I have an opportunity of observ- ing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck ...
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... shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made . Let us look round upon the present time , and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the ...
... shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made . Let us look round upon the present time , and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the ...
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... a comedy [ more drawn from life ] of nearer alliance to life . " The general character of his miscellanies is , that they shew little wit and [ no ] little virtue . [ Perhaps ] certainly he had not the fire requi- 60 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
... a comedy [ more drawn from life ] of nearer alliance to life . " The general character of his miscellanies is , that they shew little wit and [ no ] little virtue . [ Perhaps ] certainly he had not the fire requi- 60 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
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... shew where they think me wrong . " " While my friend is thus contemplated in the splendor derived from his last and perhaps most admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar propriety as as the correspondent of WARREN HASTINGS ! a man ...
... shew where they think me wrong . " " While my friend is thus contemplated in the splendor derived from his last and perhaps most admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar propriety as as the correspondent of WARREN HASTINGS ! a man ...
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Page 324 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 100 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 104 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 47 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Page 48 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
Page 459 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
Page 151 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
Page 113 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Page 80 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 316 - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.