The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Macmillan, 1922 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... Oxford in 1731 . In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . ' I am not ignorant that critical objections ...
... Oxford in 1731 . In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . ' I am not ignorant that critical objections ...
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James Boswell. think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life1 expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) ...
James Boswell. think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life1 expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) ...
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... Oxford , and during the time of vacation which he passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me , that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any ...
... Oxford , and during the time of vacation which he passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me , that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any ...
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... Oxford was Greek ; not the Grecian historians , but Homer and Euripides , and now and then a little Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought ...
... Oxford was Greek ; not the Grecian historians , but Homer and Euripides , and now and then a little Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought ...
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James Boswell. LIFE AT OXFORD 39 Yet he appears , from his early notes or memorandums in my possession , to have at various times attempted , or at least planned , a methodical course of study , according to computation ... OXFORD ...
James Boswell. LIFE AT OXFORD 39 Yet he appears , from his early notes or memorandums in my possession , to have at various times attempted , or at least planned , a methodical course of study , according to computation ... OXFORD ...
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Page 186 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? 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,3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 187 - 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 186 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 371 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Page 142 - 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 186 - ... 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 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...
Page 191 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 348 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 401 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 505 - Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all