The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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Page 42
... less remote and less illustrious than India , which afforded some occasions for speculation . What has occurred to me , I have put into the volume ( 1 ) , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents ...
... less remote and less illustrious than India , which afforded some occasions for speculation . What has occurred to me , I have put into the volume ( 1 ) , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents ...
Page 64
... less rigorous in his religious rites . This he would . not acknowledge ; but he reasoned with admirable sophistry as follows : " Why , Sir , a bishop's calling company together in this week is , to use the vulgar phrase , not the thing ...
... less rigorous in his religious rites . This he would . not acknowledge ; but he reasoned with admirable sophistry as follows : " Why , Sir , a bishop's calling company together in this week is , to use the vulgar phrase , not the thing ...
Page 76
... less entertaining than the life of any other man ? Are there not as interesting varieties in such a life ? As a literary life it may be very entertain- ing . " Boswell . " But it must be better surely when it is diversified with a ...
... less entertaining than the life of any other man ? Are there not as interesting varieties in such a life ? As a literary life it may be very entertain- ing . " Boswell . " But it must be better surely when it is diversified with a ...
Page 83
... less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof , than to make a por trait of Proteus , or to define the figure of the fleeting air . Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story , or in seasonable application of a trivial ...
... less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof , than to make a por trait of Proteus , or to define the figure of the fleeting air . Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story , or in seasonable application of a trivial ...
Page 96
... excellent constitution , now assailed on every side by innovators and levellers , would have less regretted the suppres sion of some of his lordship's other writings . 66 Essays , " which he liked very well , 96 781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... excellent constitution , now assailed on every side by innovators and levellers , would have less regretted the suppres sion of some of his lordship's other writings . 66 Essays , " which he liked very well , 96 781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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