The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... observed , could not apply to all , for there must be some who have nobody worse than they JOHNSON . " Why , to be sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think ...
... observed , could not apply to all , for there must be some who have nobody worse than they JOHNSON . " Why , to be sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think ...
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... observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I have written them down , and ones ...
... observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I have written them down , and ones ...
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... observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and it was fit for a King to pay . It was decisive . " When asked by another friend , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , whether he made any reply to this high ...
... observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and it was fit for a King to pay . It was decisive . " When asked by another friend , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , whether he made any reply to this high ...
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... observed that Pope made Warburton a Bishop . " True , Sir , ( said Johnson , ) but Warburton did more for Pope ; he made him a Christian : " alluding , no doubt , to his inge- nious comments on the " Essay on Man . " ed by them would ...
... observed that Pope made Warburton a Bishop . " True , Sir , ( said Johnson , ) but Warburton did more for Pope ; he made him a Christian : " alluding , no doubt , to his inge- nious comments on the " Essay on Man . " ed by them would ...
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... observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly . " Ay , ( said the King , ) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ; " for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance , which Johnson ...
... observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly . " Ay , ( said the King , ) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ; " for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance , which Johnson ...
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Page 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Page 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Page 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Page 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Page 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Page 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.