The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 - Authors, English |
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... once slipped in three lines , when " Charity ” had been given for a subject : " THE VASE SPEAKS . " For Heaven's sake bestow on me , A little wit , for that would be , Indeed , an act of charity . " 3 The Rev. Mr. Graves , according to ...
... once slipped in three lines , when " Charity ” had been given for a subject : " THE VASE SPEAKS . " For Heaven's sake bestow on me , A little wit , for that would be , Indeed , an act of charity . " 3 The Rev. Mr. Graves , according to ...
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... once a month and sup every Friday . My fore- noons are spent in visiting , and you know the distances in London makes that busi- ness enough . " A few days later - after all this dissipation he writes to his friend , " I have only to ...
... once a month and sup every Friday . My fore- noons are spent in visiting , and you know the distances in London makes that busi- ness enough . " A few days later - after all this dissipation he writes to his friend , " I have only to ...
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... once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation , that if I should write but a page a day , at the same rate , I should , in ten years , write nine volumes in folio , of an ordinary size and print . " BoSWELL . " Such as Carte's ...
... once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation , that if I should write but a page a day , at the same rate , I should , in ten years , write nine volumes in folio , of an ordinary size and print . " BoSWELL . " Such as Carte's ...
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... once tried to say something upon our side . Tom Davies clapped him on the back , to encourage him . Beauclerk , to whom I mentioned this circumstance , said , that " he could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped ...
... once tried to say something upon our side . Tom Davies clapped him on the back , to encourage him . Beauclerk , to whom I mentioned this circumstance , said , that " he could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped ...
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... once in the mouths of all the people of this country , and is said to have had a great effect in bringing about the Revolution . Yet I question whether any body can repeat it now ; which shews how improbable it is that much poetry ...
... once in the mouths of all the people of this country , and is said to have had a great effect in bringing about the Revolution . Yet I question whether any body can repeat it now ; which shews how improbable it is that much poetry ...
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Page 215 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Page 428 - Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality...
Page 500 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 431 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Page 219 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 155 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Page 466 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 474 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth 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. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ansv/erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 238 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?
Page 223 - 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.