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... asked , -Is not this fine ? Shiels having expressed the highest admiration , " Well , Sir , ( said I , ) I have omitted every other line . " I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley , one day when they and I were ...
... asked , -Is not this fine ? Shiels having expressed the highest admiration , " Well , Sir , ( said I , ) I have omitted every other line . " I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley , one day when they and I were ...
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... asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary , and what commentaries he would recom ... asked the minister aloud , " What bribe he had received for telling so many lies from the chair of verity . " I was ...
... asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary , and what commentaries he would recom ... asked the minister aloud , " What bribe he had received for telling so many lies from the chair of verity . " I was ...
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... asked no other favour of Sir Robert Walpole , than that he would bow to him at his levee . I am , Sir , " Your most humble servant , " August 3 , 1776. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , August 30 ...
... asked no other favour of Sir Robert Walpole , than that he would bow to him at his levee . I am , Sir , " Your most humble servant , " August 3 , 1776. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , August 30 ...
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... asked one thousand , or even fifteen hundred guineas , the booksellers , who knew the value of his name , would doubtless have readily given it . They have probably got five thousand guineas by this work in the course of twenty - five ...
... asked one thousand , or even fifteen hundred guineas , the booksellers , who knew the value of his name , would doubtless have readily given it . They have probably got five thousand guineas by this work in the course of twenty - five ...
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... asked a charity and was refused . I am , reverend Sir , " Your most humble servant , " July 9 , 1777. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " [ TO THE REVEREND DR . VYSE , AT LAMBETH . " IF any notice should be taken of the recommendation which I took ...
... asked a charity and was refused . I am , reverend Sir , " Your most humble servant , " July 9 , 1777. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " [ TO THE REVEREND DR . VYSE , AT LAMBETH . " IF any notice should be taken of the recommendation which I took ...
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Page 115 - 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 536 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 483 - 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 359 - 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 ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 251 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 366 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Page 200 - 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 529 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Page 365 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.