The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.W. P. Nimmo, 1873 - 560 pages |
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... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble at- tendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped while he sat upon his back , and ...
... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble at- tendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped while he sat upon his back , and ...
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... desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an answer . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' TO MR . CAVE , [ No date . ] ' SIR , -I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commentary cannot be ...
... desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an answer . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' TO MR . CAVE , [ No date . ] ' SIR , -I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commentary cannot be ...
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... desire in that respect , it would be a great satisfaction , as well as an honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under ...
... desire in that respect , it would be a great satisfaction , as well as an honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under ...
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... desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold of this as a pretext for delay , that it might be better done , and let Dodsley have his desire . I said to my friend , Dr. Bathurst , Lord Chesterfield , it will be ...
... desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold of this as a pretext for delay , that it might be better done , and let Dodsley have his desire . I said to my friend , Dr. Bathurst , Lord Chesterfield , it will be ...
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... desire , there will be added to the masque a dramatic satire , called Lethe , in which Mr. Garrick will perform . ' In 1751 we are to consider him as carrying on both his Dictionary and Rambler . But he also wrote ' The Life of Cheynel ...
... desire , there will be added to the masque a dramatic satire , called Lethe , in which Mr. Garrick will perform . ' In 1751 we are to consider him as carrying on both his Dictionary and Rambler . But he also wrote ' The Life of Cheynel ...
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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'.