The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Volume 21835 |
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... honour , which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . " When , upon some slight encouragement , I first visited your lordship , I was overpowered ...
... honour , which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . " When , upon some slight encouragement , I first visited your lordship , I was overpowered ...
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... honoured him for his manly behaviour in rejecting these con- descensions of Lord Chesterfield , and for resenting the treatment he had received from him with a proper spirit . Johnson was visibly pleased with this compliment , for he ...
... honoured him for his manly behaviour in rejecting these con- descensions of Lord Chesterfield , and for resenting the treatment he had received from him with a proper spirit . Johnson was visibly pleased with this compliment , for he ...
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... honour of considerable importance , in order to grace the title - page of his Dictionary ; and his character in the literary world being by this time deservedly high , his friends thought that , if proper exertions were made , the ...
... honour of considerable importance , in order to grace the title - page of his Dictionary ; and his character in the literary world being by this time deservedly high , his friends thought that , if proper exertions were made , the ...
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... honour or a small advantage ; since it will put the enjoyment of your conversation more frequently in the power of , dear Sir , your most obliged and affec- tionate , SAM . JOHNSON . " P. S. I have enclosed a letter to the Vice - Chan ...
... honour or a small advantage ; since it will put the enjoyment of your conversation more frequently in the power of , dear Sir , your most obliged and affec- tionate , SAM . JOHNSON . " P. S. I have enclosed a letter to the Vice - Chan ...
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... honour of the English language . I am , with the greatest regard , Sir , your most faithful and most affectionate humble servant , " THO . BIRCH . " part of your Dictionary which you have Mr. Charles Burney , who has since distinguished ...
... honour of the English language . I am , with the greatest regard , Sir , your most faithful and most affectionate humble servant , " THO . BIRCH . " part of your Dictionary which you have Mr. Charles Burney , who has since distinguished ...
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Popular passages
Page 3 - 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 2 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page 200 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Page 2 - 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 1 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an...
Page 243 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 42 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people].
Page 255 - Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.
Page 98 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible.
Page 181 - He afterwards studied physic at Edinburgh, and upon the continent; and, I have been informed, was enabled to pursue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, according to the custom 'of many of them, he was entitled to the premium of a crown, when luckily for him his challenge was not accepted; so that, as I once observed to Dr.