The Life of Samuel Johnson: 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 ...T. Cadell, 1822 - Authors, English |
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... seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six - and - twenty . I said to him , " Your style , Sir , is much improved since you trans- lated this . " He answered with a sort of triumphant smile , " Sir , I hope it is . " On ...
... seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six - and - twenty . I said to him , " Your style , Sir , is much improved since you trans- lated this . " He answered with a sort of triumphant smile , " Sir , I hope it is . " On ...
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... seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour , on which I flattered myself , he and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson were soon to set out ; and , therefore , I pressed it as much as I could . I mentioned that Mr. Beauclerk had ...
... seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour , on which I flattered myself , he and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson were soon to set out ; and , therefore , I pressed it as much as I could . I mentioned that Mr. Beauclerk had ...
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... seemed jealous of any inter- ference : " So , ( said his Lordship , smiling , ) I kept back . " There is an account of him in Sir John Hawkins's Life of John- son , p . 244 . [ Mr. Thomas Ballow was authour of an excellent TREATISE OF ...
... seemed jealous of any inter- ference : " So , ( said his Lordship , smiling , ) I kept back . " There is an account of him in Sir John Hawkins's Life of John- son , p . 244 . [ Mr. Thomas Ballow was authour of an excellent TREATISE OF ...
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... my usual custom . It seemed to me , that there was always something particularly mild and placid in 3 Patrick , Lord Elibank , who died in 1778 . his manner upon this holy festival , the commemoration of 22 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
... my usual custom . It seemed to me , that there was always something particularly mild and placid in 3 Patrick , Lord Elibank , who died in 1778 . his manner upon this holy festival , the commemoration of 22 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
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... seemed to dip deep into his mind for the reflection . " . JOHNSON . " He had not far to dip , Sir ; he had said the same thing , probably , twenty times before . " Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said ...
... seemed to dip deep into his mind for the reflection . " . JOHNSON . " He had not far to dip , Sir ; he had said the same thing , probably , twenty times before . " Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said ...
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Page 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Page 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Page 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Page 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Page 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Page 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Page 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.