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... hands to be one of the most attractive and profitable kinds of reading . " The reason of this is obvious . It has , when properly treated , the ease and variety of the most agreeable forms of literature , and its subject - matter most ...
... hands to be one of the most attractive and profitable kinds of reading . " The reason of this is obvious . It has , when properly treated , the ease and variety of the most agreeable forms of literature , and its subject - matter most ...
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... hand placed a new pair at his door , throwing them away with indignation as an insult to his poverty . Such was the pride of John- son , an honest pride often shown in his career through life , which preserved his independence and kept ...
... hand placed a new pair at his door , throwing them away with indignation as an insult to his poverty . Such was the pride of John- son , an honest pride often shown in his career through life , which preserved his independence and kept ...
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... hand was extended to receive the shock ? What Sancho Panza was to Don Quix ote , his page to Falstaff , his squire to Hudibras , Boswell was to Johnson . But no man had more illustrious friends than Johnson ; and Boswell , had he been ...
... hand was extended to receive the shock ? What Sancho Panza was to Don Quix ote , his page to Falstaff , his squire to Hudibras , Boswell was to Johnson . But no man had more illustrious friends than Johnson ; and Boswell , had he been ...
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... hand , falling at ease , holding a pen , his left support- ing an open book , his countenance re- flecting at once his humor and intelli- gence -- the oppressed servitor of 1745 -the most interesting tradition of the University a ...
... hand , falling at ease , holding a pen , his left support- ing an open book , his countenance re- flecting at once his humor and intelli- gence -- the oppressed servitor of 1745 -the most interesting tradition of the University a ...
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... hand velvet coat in which he was support- ing his professional reputation . A poor patient , a printer's workman in- troduces him to his master , Richard- son , the author of Clarissa , who gives him some employment as proof reader ...
... hand velvet coat in which he was support- ing his professional reputation . A poor patient , a printer's workman in- troduces him to his master , Richard- son , the author of Clarissa , who gives him some employment as proof reader ...
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Page 257 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Page 39 - 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. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 185 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Page 555 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 20 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 137 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 285 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 38 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 328 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 292 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.