The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: 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: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 4National ilustrated library, 1859 |
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... known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Maittaire's account of the Stephani , is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man ...
... known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Maittaire's account of the Stephani , is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man ...
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... known comedy of " The Beaux Stratagem . " He was born at London- derry , in 1678 , and died at the premature age of 29 , when he had arrived at the zenith of popularity.- 3 In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he ...
... known comedy of " The Beaux Stratagem . " He was born at London- derry , in 1678 , and died at the premature age of 29 , when he had arrived at the zenith of popularity.- 3 In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he ...
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... known that his lordship died before the sentence was made known . " " Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in 1 The French horn , however , is so far from being melancholy per se , that when the strain is light , and ...
... known that his lordship died before the sentence was made known . " " Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in 1 The French horn , however , is so far from being melancholy per se , that when the strain is light , and ...
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... known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames to accost each other as they passed in the most abusive language they could invent , generally , however , with as much satirical humour as they were ...
... known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames to accost each other as they passed in the most abusive language they could invent , generally , however , with as much satirical humour as they were ...
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... known . " 66 6 Supposing , ' said he , ' a wife to be of a studious or argumenta- tive turn , it would be very troublesome ; for instance , if a woman should continually dwell upon the subject of the Arian heresy . ' " No man speaks ...
... known . " 66 6 Supposing , ' said he , ' a wife to be of a studious or argumenta- tive turn , it would be very troublesome ; for instance , if a woman should continually dwell upon the subject of the Arian heresy . ' " No man speaks ...
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Page 272 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 72 - 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 216 - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
Page 79 - Tis that which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Page 217 - He seemed to take a pleasure in speaking in his own style ; for when he had carelessly missed it, he would repeat the thought translated into it. Talking of the comedy of "The Rehearsal," he said, "It has not wit enough to keep it sweet.
Page 88 - They are more powerful, Sir, than we, answered Imlac, because they are wiser ; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given, but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Page 27 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Page 290 - 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 204 - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?' JOHNSON. 'A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk ; but I do not despair.' MRS. ADAMS. 'You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
Page 239 - Sept. 2. Mr. Windham has been here to see me; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and stayed about a day and a half; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.