The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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Page 84
... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good propor- tion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Macpherson ...
... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good propor- tion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Macpherson ...
Page 92
... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , “ He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , “ He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
Page 96
... seat directly behind me ; and as he could neither see nor hear at such a distance from the stage , he was wrapped up in grave abstraction , and seemed quite a AT MRS . ABINGTON'S BENEFIT " " 97 cloud , 96 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... seat directly behind me ; and as he could neither see nor hear at such a distance from the stage , he was wrapped up in grave abstraction , and seemed quite a AT MRS . ABINGTON'S BENEFIT " " 97 cloud , 96 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
Page 101
... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the preceding night , some fresh peels nicely ...
... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the preceding night , some fresh peels nicely ...
Page 103
... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , - un gentilhomme comme un autre . B. " Viro Reverenas THOME FOTHERGILL , S.T.P. ...
... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , - un gentilhomme comme un autre . B. " Viro Reverenas THOME FOTHERGILL , S.T.P. ...
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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.
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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.