The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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Page 48
... hope your dear lady and her dear baby are both well . I shall see them too when I come ; and I have that opinion of your choice , as to suspect that when I have seen Mrs. Boswell , I shall be less willing to go away . I am , dear Sir ...
... hope your dear lady and her dear baby are both well . I shall see them too when I come ; and I have that opinion of your choice , as to suspect that when I have seen Mrs. Boswell , I shall be less willing to go away . I am , dear Sir ...
Page 49
... hope , but do not absolutely promise to be in Edinburgh on Saturday . Beattie will not come am , Sir , your most humble servant , so soon . I << ' My compliments to your lady . " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . JOHNSON sends ...
... hope , but do not absolutely promise to be in Edinburgh on Saturday . Beattie will not come am , Sir , your most humble servant , so soon . I << ' My compliments to your lady . " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . JOHNSON sends ...
Page 56
... hope , that between us something will sometime be done , if not on this on some occasion . " Chambers is either married , or almost married , to Miss Wilton , a girl of sixteen , exquisitely beautiful , whom he has with his lawyer's ...
... hope , that between us something will sometime be done , if not on this on some occasion . " Chambers is either married , or almost married , to Miss Wilton , a girl of sixteen , exquisitely beautiful , whom he has with his lawyer's ...
Page 61
... hope to make some use . I made some of the former . " I am , dear Sir , your most affectionate servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . “ July 4 , 1774 . " My compliments to all the three ladies . " แ TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . , AT LANGTON , NEAR ...
... hope to make some use . I made some of the former . " I am , dear Sir , your most affectionate servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . “ July 4 , 1774 . " My compliments to all the three ladies . " แ TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . , AT LANGTON , NEAR ...
Page 62
... hope that they have done me good . " Wales , so far as I have yet seen of it , is a very beautiful and rich country , all enclosed , and planted . Denbigh is not a mean town . Make my compliments to all my friends , and tell Frank I hope ...
... hope that they have done me good . " Wales , so far as I have yet seen of it , is a very beautiful and rich country , all enclosed , and planted . Denbigh is not a mean town . Make my compliments to all my friends , and tell Frank I hope ...
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Page 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Page 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Page 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Page 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Page 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Page 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.