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 83
... look or gesture , passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity , sometimes a presumptuous blunt ness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious ...
... look or gesture , passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity , sometimes a presumptuous blunt ness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious ...
Page 103
... this reflection , that if it was as good as it was at first designed , there seems to be somewhat the less reason to look for its amendment . ' clemency to find another manner of proceeding , less destructive ETAT . 72 . 103 ORIGINAL SIN .
... this reflection , that if it was as good as it was at first designed , there seems to be somewhat the less reason to look for its amendment . ' clemency to find another manner of proceeding , less destructive ETAT . 72 . 103 ORIGINAL SIN .
Page 149
... look on and laugh when one scholar dedicates to another ? " If I had been consulted about this Lexicon of Antiquities while it was yet only a design , I should have recommended rather a division of Hebrew , Greek , and Roman particulars ...
... look on and laugh when one scholar dedicates to another ? " If I had been consulted about this Lexicon of Antiquities while it was yet only a design , I should have recommended rather a division of Hebrew , Greek , and Roman particulars ...
Page 162
... look inwards and be satisfied ; recollecting with con- scious pride what Virgil finely says of the Corycius Senex , and which I have , in another place ( 1 ) , with truth and sincerity applied to Mr. Burke : " Regum æquabat opes animis ...
... look inwards and be satisfied ; recollecting with con- scious pride what Virgil finely says of the Corycius Senex , and which I have , in another place ( 1 ) , with truth and sincerity applied to Mr. Burke : " Regum æquabat opes animis ...
Page 173
... look forward to the chance of future favour . Sir Joshua Reynolds communicated to me the following particulars : Johnson thought the poems published as trans- lations from Ossian had so little merit , that he said , " Sir , a man might ...
... look forward to the chance of future favour . Sir Joshua Reynolds communicated to me the following particulars : Johnson thought the poems published as trans- lations from Ossian had so little merit , that he said , " Sir , a man might ...
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