The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent & Company, 1907 - Authors, English |
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... give money merely in charity . Suppose the ancient luxury of a dish of peacock's brains were to be revived , how many carcases would be left to the poor at a cheap rate and as to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by ...
... give money merely in charity . Suppose the ancient luxury of a dish of peacock's brains were to be revived , how many carcases would be left to the poor at a cheap rate and as to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by ...
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... give way to actions for every reproachful word . An action cannot be brought for general damages , upon any words which import less than an offence cognisable by law ; consequently no action could have been brought here for the words in ...
... give way to actions for every reproachful word . An action cannot be brought for general damages , upon any words which import less than an offence cognisable by law ; consequently no action could have been brought here for the words in ...
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... give it for John Dryden , in preference to Elkanah Settle , from the names only , without knowing their different merits . " JOHNSON . " I suppose Sir , Settle did as well for Aldermen in his time , as John Home could do now . Where did ...
... give it for John Dryden , in preference to Elkanah Settle , from the names only , without knowing their different merits . " JOHNSON . " I suppose Sir , Settle did as well for Aldermen in his time , as John Home could do now . Where did ...
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... give a notion of a very curious interview , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the agreeable and benignant effect of reconciling any animosity , and sweetening any acidity , which , in the various bustle of political ...
... give a notion of a very curious interview , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the agreeable and benignant effect of reconciling any animosity , and sweetening any acidity , which , in the various bustle of political ...
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... give of future eminence . I recommend him as the son of my friend . Your character and station enable you to give a young man great encouragement by very easy means . You have heard of a man who asked no other favour of Sir Robert ...
... give of future eminence . I recommend him as the son of my friend . Your character and station enable you to give a young man great encouragement by very easy means . You have heard of a man who asked no other favour of Sir Robert ...
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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.