The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR ...
... universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR ...
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... Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some ...
... Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some ...
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... Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should ... college , I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr ... Pembroke college , and exercises upon the subject of the day were required . Johnson ...
... Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should ... college , I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr ... Pembroke college , and exercises upon the subject of the day were required . Johnson ...
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... college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other ... Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that ... college was that upon the second floor over the gateway 40 [ 1729 . THE LIFE OF.
... college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other ... Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that ... college was that upon the second floor over the gateway 40 [ 1729 . THE LIFE OF.
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... Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
... Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present of all his works , to be de- posited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
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Page 199 - 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 362 - 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 167 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 228 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 198 - 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 198 - World, that two papers, in which my 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 46 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope, that at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.
Page 147 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Page 307 - But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...
Page xv - Marmor Norfolciense ; or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne, in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus...