The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... truth : Physical truth , is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
... truth : Physical truth , is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
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... truth , and every other man has a right to knock him down for it . Martyrdom is the test . " " A man , he observed , should begin to write soon ; for , if he waits till his judgment is matured , his inability , through want of practice ...
... truth , and every other man has a right to knock him down for it . Martyrdom is the test . " " A man , he observed , should begin to write soon ; for , if he waits till his judgment is matured , his inability , through want of practice ...
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... ( Truth mixt with errour , shades with rays , ) " Like Whiston , wanting pyx or stars , " In ocean wide or sinks or strays . " But grant , our hero's hope long toil " And comprehensive genius crown , " All sciences , all arts his spoil ...
... ( Truth mixt with errour , shades with rays , ) " Like Whiston , wanting pyx or stars , " In ocean wide or sinks or strays . " But grant , our hero's hope long toil " And comprehensive genius crown , " All sciences , all arts his spoil ...
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... truth , as I myself pointed out to him , before he wrote that poet's life , the papers were " committed to the sole care and judgment of Lord Bolingbroke , unless he ( Lord Bolingbroke ) shall not survive ine ; " so that Lord Marchmont ...
... truth , as I myself pointed out to him , before he wrote that poet's life , the papers were " committed to the sole care and judgment of Lord Bolingbroke , unless he ( Lord Bolingbroke ) shall not survive ine ; " so that Lord Marchmont ...
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... truth . " In the Life of ADDISON we find an unpleasing account of his having lent Steele a hundred pounds , and reclaimed “ his loan by an execution . " In the new edition of the Biographia Britannica , the authenticity of this anecdote ...
... truth . " In the Life of ADDISON we find an unpleasing account of his having lent Steele a hundred pounds , and reclaimed “ his loan by an execution . " In the new edition of the Biographia Britannica , the authenticity of this anecdote ...
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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.