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. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pages |
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... shall not be furprized if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have alfo been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; bolding that there is a respect due to the Publick which should oblige ...
... shall not be furprized if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have alfo been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; bolding that there is a respect due to the Publick which should oblige ...
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... SHALL endeavour ( fays Dr. Warburton ) to give you what fatisfaction I can in any thing you want to be fatisfied in any fubject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had ...
... SHALL endeavour ( fays Dr. Warburton ) to give you what fatisfaction I can in any thing you want to be fatisfied in any fubject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had ...
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... shall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , fo he expreffes it , of a good man ought to be regarded ; the most super- fluous things he faith are always of fome value . And other ancient ...
... shall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , fo he expreffes it , of a good man ought to be regarded ; the most super- fluous things he faith are always of fome value . And other ancient ...
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... And view with cheerful eyes approaching death . The inexorable fifters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : D 2 The The day will come , in which proud Troy fhall THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 19.
... And view with cheerful eyes approaching death . The inexorable fifters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : D 2 The The day will come , in which proud Troy fhall THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 19.
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... shall quench fome Grecian's thirfty rage , Nor my brave brothers , that have bit the ground , Their fouls difmifs'd through many a ghaftly wound , Can in my bofom half , that grief create , As the fad thought of your impending fate ...
... shall quench fome Grecian's thirfty rage , Nor my brave brothers , that have bit the ground , Their fouls difmifs'd through many a ghaftly wound , Can in my bofom half , that grief create , As the fad thought of your impending fate ...
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Ætat affured againſt almoſt anſwer aſked authour becauſe beſt BOSWELL circumftance compofition confider confiderable converfation courſe DEAR SIR defire Dictionary diſtinguiſhed Effay Engliſh Etat expreffed faid fame fatire favour feemed fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fociety fome fomething fometimes foon fpirit fubject fuch fuffer fuppofe fure furniſhed Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GOLDSMITH happineſs Hebrides himſelf hiſtory honour houſe humble fervant inftance JAMES BOSWELL Johnſon juſt kindneſs Langton laſt lefs letter Lichfield London maſter mentioned mind moft moſt muſt myſelf neceffary never obferved occafion Oxford paffage paffed perfon pleaſed pleaſure poem praiſe prefent publick publiſhed queſtion Rambler reaſon refpect ſaid ſay ſchool Scotland ſee ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua ſome ſtate ſtill ſtrong ſtudy ſtyle ſuch ſuppoſe talk theſe thing thofe THOMAS WARTON thoſe thought told tranflation Univerſity uſed vifit whofe whoſe wiſh write wrote yourſelf
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Page 142 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
Page 142 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Page 141 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 225 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 243 - I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am. now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am. in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Page 239 - Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
Page 215 - The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effect is good; but, with respect to me, the action is very wrong.
Page 141 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 40 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 11 - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity and tempt him to conceal if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric and not to be known from one another...