The works of Samuel Johnson, 1. kötetT. Tegg, 1824 |
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... perhaps as valuable as the moral doctrine that speaks with energy in every page of his works . The present writer enjoyed the conversation and friendship of that excellent man more than thirty years . He thought it an honour to be so ...
... perhaps as valuable as the moral doctrine that speaks with energy in every page of his works . The present writer enjoyed the conversation and friendship of that excellent man more than thirty years . He thought it an honour to be so ...
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... perhaps a more satis- factory account , such as may exhibit a just pic- ture of the man , and keep him the principal figure in the foreground of his own picture . To comply with that request is the design of this essay , which the ...
... perhaps a more satis- factory account , such as may exhibit a just pic- ture of the man , and keep him the principal figure in the foreground of his own picture . To comply with that request is the design of this essay , which the ...
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... perhaps , be- cause it was stopped by roots , the whole place being full of trees . A line of ten feet did not reach the bottom of the other . These springs are supposed by the Abyssins to be the vents of a great subterraneous lake . At ...
... perhaps , be- cause it was stopped by roots , the whole place being full of trees . A line of ten feet did not reach the bottom of the other . These springs are supposed by the Abyssins to be the vents of a great subterraneous lake . At ...
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... which he has described ? Mr. Bruce's pool of water may have been formed since ; and Lobo , perhaps , was content to sit down without a bench . whole imperial army passed , was laid over them . c 2 GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 15.
... which he has described ? Mr. Bruce's pool of water may have been formed since ; and Lobo , perhaps , was content to sit down without a bench . whole imperial army passed , was laid over them . c 2 GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 15.
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... perhaps never before that day entered the metropolis together . Their stock of money was soon exhausted . In his visionary project of an academy , Johnson had probably wasted his wife's See the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736 , p . 418 ...
... perhaps never before that day entered the metropolis together . Their stock of money was soon exhausted . In his visionary project of an academy , Johnson had probably wasted his wife's See the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736 , p . 418 ...
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55. oldal - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
54. oldal - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
54. oldal - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
156. oldal - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
55. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
86. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
157. oldal - Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
32. oldal - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
55. oldal - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
50. oldal - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You see, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.