The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . ' I am not ignorant that critical objections have been made to this and other specimens of Johnson's Latin poetry . I ...
... appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . ' I am not ignorant that critical objections have been made to this and other specimens of Johnson's Latin poetry . I ...
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... appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- " Igneus est ollis vigor , et cœlestis origo . " — En . vi . 730 . The history of his mind as to religion is an important article ...
... appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- " Igneus est ollis vigor , et cœlestis origo . " — En . vi . 730 . The history of his mind as to religion is an important article ...
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... appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating cir- cumstance was perceived by the Christ - Church men , and he came no more . He was too proud to accept of money , 1 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . p . 529. B ...
... appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating cir- cumstance was perceived by the Christ - Church men , and he came no more . He was too proud to accept of money , 1 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . p . 529. B ...
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... appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly ...
... appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly ...
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... appeared , and probably never was executed . We find him again this year at Birmingham , and there is preserved the following letter from him to Mr. Edward Cave , the original compiler and editor of the Gentleman's Magazine : " TO MR ...
... appeared , and probably never was executed . We find him again this year at Birmingham , and there is preserved the following letter from him to Mr. Edward Cave , the original compiler and editor of the Gentleman's Magazine : " TO MR ...
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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