The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.W. P. Nimmo, 1873 - 560 pages |
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James Boswell, William Wallace. DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . ADVERTISEMENT TO SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. MY DEAR SIR , Every liberal motive that can actuate an Author in the dedication of his labours ...
James Boswell, William Wallace. DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . ADVERTISEMENT TO SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. MY DEAR SIR , Every liberal motive that can actuate an Author in the dedication of his labours ...
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... DEAR SIR , -I cannot but confess the failures of my correspondence , but hope the same re- gard which you express for me on every other occasion will incline you to forgive me . I am often , very often , ill ; and when I am well , am ...
... DEAR SIR , -I cannot but confess the failures of my correspondence , but hope the same re- gard which you express for me on every other occasion will incline you to forgive me . I am often , very often , ill ; and when I am well , am ...
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... dear sir , etc. , his family from the Chief , who was willing to. letter was brought to Dr. Taylor , at his house in the Cloisters , Westminster , about three in the morning ; and as it signified an earnest desire to see him , he got up ...
... dear sir , etc. , his family from the Chief , who was willing to. letter was brought to Dr. Taylor , at his house in the Cloisters , Westminster , about three in the morning ; and as it signified an earnest desire to see him , he got up ...
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... dear sir , that you do not regret the change of London for Oxford . Mr. Baretti is well , and Miss Williams ; 1 and we shall be glad to hear from you , whenever you shall be so kind as to write to , sir , your most humble servant ...
... dear sir , that you do not regret the change of London for Oxford . Mr. Baretti is well , and Miss Williams ; 1 and we shall be glad to hear from you , whenever you shall be so kind as to write to , sir , your most humble servant ...
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... dear sir , your most obliged , etc. , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' TO THE SAME . 10 ' Dec. 21 , 1754 . ' DEAR SIR , -I am extremely sensible of the favour done me , both by Mr. Wise and yourself . The book [ the Dictionary ] cannot , I think ...
... dear sir , your most obliged , etc. , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' TO THE SAME . 10 ' Dec. 21 , 1754 . ' DEAR SIR , -I am extremely sensible of the favour done me , both by Mr. Wise and yourself . The book [ the Dictionary ] cannot , I think ...
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Page 451 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 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 72 - 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. 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...
Page 118 - 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 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 72 - 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 public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 17 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken; his learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Page 193 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 72 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Page 121 - 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 98 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.