The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... writing Dedications for others , he considered himself as by no means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him , when I had any thing worthy of commu- nicating . I generally kept ...
... writing Dedications for others , he considered himself as by no means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him , when I had any thing worthy of commu- nicating . I generally kept ...
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... writing than in not writing . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you may wonder . " He talked of making verses , and observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps ...
... writing than in not writing . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you may wonder . " He talked of making verses , and observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps ...
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... write down what is told you . The little things which distinguish domestick characters are soon forgotten : if you delay to enquire , you will have no information ; if you neglect to write , information will be vain . 7 · 5 Mr ...
... write down what is told you . The little things which distinguish domestick characters are soon forgotten : if you delay to enquire , you will have no information ; if you neglect to write , information will be vain . 7 · 5 Mr ...
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... writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius , we find Terent . Heautontim . act ii . scene 3 . -hoc ipsa in itinere alteræ ' Dum narrat , forte audivi . ' " You doubt my ... write nullius originis , for Etat . 57. ] 23 DR . JOHNSON .
... writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius , we find Terent . Heautontim . act ii . scene 3 . -hoc ipsa in itinere alteræ ' Dum narrat , forte audivi . ' " You doubt my ... write nullius originis , for Etat . 57. ] 23 DR . JOHNSON .
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... write nullius originis , for ob- scure extraction ? " I have defended myself as well as I could . 66 Might I venture to differ from you with regard to the utility of vows ? I am sensible that it would be very dangerous to make vows ...
... write nullius originis , for ob- scure extraction ? " I have defended myself as well as I could . 66 Might I venture to differ from you with regard to the utility of vows ? I am sensible that it would be very dangerous to make vows ...
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66 DEAR SIR 66 TO JAMES acquaintance admiration affectionate afraid appeared asked authour Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON character church compliments consider conversation Court dined Doctor of Medicine Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Garrick gentleman give glad Goldsmith happy Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON Judge King lady Langton laugh learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter MALONE manner ment mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem publick racter reason remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare shewed Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies wish wonder write written wrote
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219. oldal - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
213. oldal - That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing.
140. oldal - My request, therefore, is, that you would rectify this matter in your new edition. You are at liberty to make what use you please of this letter.
235. oldal - ... and that the gentleman on whose account she was divorced had gained her heart while thus unhappily situated. Seduced, perhaps, by the charms of the lady in question, I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified ; for when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check : ' My dear sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't.
76. oldal - While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! It is not [94] worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits.
75. oldal - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
437. oldal - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
245. oldal - He was still more mortified, when talking in a company with fluent vivacity, and, as he flattered himself, to the admiration of all...
224. oldal - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius 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 everything 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.
6. oldal - Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...