The life of Dr. Samuel JohnsonJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. Engraved by Joh THE WORKS O F Samuel Johnson , LL . D. 1709 . 15 DECEM 1784 SAMUEL JOHNSON L.LD. Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds . John Hall E Engraver : to his . Wazon Publifh'd as the Act directs by the ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. Engraved by Joh THE WORKS O F Samuel Johnson , LL . D. 1709 . 15 DECEM 1784 SAMUEL JOHNSON L.LD. Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds . John Hall E Engraver : to his . Wazon Publifh'd as the Act directs by the ...
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. find it noted in his diary , on the seventh day of Sep- tember , 1709 : his brother , named Nathanael , was born fome years after . Mr. Johnson was a man of eminence in his trade , and of fuch reputation in ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. find it noted in his diary , on the seventh day of Sep- tember , 1709 : his brother , named Nathanael , was born fome years after . Mr. Johnson was a man of eminence in his trade , and of fuch reputation in ...
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... Johnson fay , that he himself was able to bind a book . This fufpenfe continued about two years , at the end whereof , a neighbouring gentleman , Mr. Andrew Corbet , hav- ing a fon , who had been educated in the fame school with Johnson ...
... Johnson fay , that he himself was able to bind a book . This fufpenfe continued about two years , at the end whereof , a neighbouring gentleman , Mr. Andrew Corbet , hav- ing a fon , who had been educated in the fame school with Johnson ...
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. excite pity in fome that faw and noticed him . Shall I be particular , and relate a circumftance of his distress , that cannot be imputed to him as an effect of his own extravagance or irregularity , and ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. excite pity in fome that faw and noticed him . Shall I be particular , and relate a circumftance of his distress , that cannot be imputed to him as an effect of his own extravagance or irregularity , and ...
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... Johnson's difquifitive propenfity just dawns in an obfervation on the erroneous method of the Roman church , in making converts ; but there is nothing striking in the compofition . Were we to rest our judgment on internal evidence , ...
... Johnson's difquifitive propenfity just dawns in an obfervation on the erroneous method of the Roman church , in making converts ; but there is nothing striking in the compofition . Were we to rest our judgment on internal evidence , ...
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349. oldal - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
265. oldal - Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy son, JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
519. oldal - From zeal or malice now no more we dread, For English vengeance wars not with the dead, A generous foe regards with pitying eye The man whom fate has laid where all must lie. To wit, reviving from its author's dust, Be kind, ye judges, or at least be just : Let no renewed hostilities invade Th' oblivious grave's inviolable shade.
127. oldal - I have been accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and an adoption of the opinions and language of another man. In the first sense, sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves only to be mentioned that it may be despised.
344. oldal - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
155. oldal - ... the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
190. oldal - I am almost in a fever whenever I am in his company. His figure (without being deformed) seems made to disgrace or ridicule the common structure of the human body.
555. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
62. oldal - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
584. oldal - Support me by the grace of thy Holy Spirit in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death, and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ. — Amen.