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... lived race . When Johnson came to London it had been five or six years in existence , and its fame had reached him at Lichfield . He had written a letter to its founder two or three years before , offering to contribute poems and ...
... lived race . When Johnson came to London it had been five or six years in existence , and its fame had reached him at Lichfield . He had written a letter to its founder two or three years before , offering to contribute poems and ...
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... lived so heartily in the present as Johnson . No author has more closely identified the life of all ages in his writings , or so demonstrated its essential moral unity . It was an easy labor for him , therefore , to supply with modern ...
... lived so heartily in the present as Johnson . No author has more closely identified the life of all ages in his writings , or so demonstrated its essential moral unity . It was an easy labor for him , therefore , to supply with modern ...
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... lived to see the establishment of his reputation as one of the foremost poets and prose writers of his time . He had greatly relied on her approval of the early numbers of the " Rambler . " " I thought very well of you before , " said ...
... lived to see the establishment of his reputation as one of the foremost poets and prose writers of his time . He had greatly relied on her approval of the early numbers of the " Rambler . " " I thought very well of you before , " said ...
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... lived , his right 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 ...
... lived , his right 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 ...
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... lived many years in in- timacy with you . It may serve the interest of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without impair- ing the most unaffected piety . " In the later play , produced ...
... lived many years in in- timacy with you . It may serve the interest of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without impair- ing the most unaffected piety . " In the later play , produced ...
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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.