The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 oldal |
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... - ed with the rudenefs of his behaviour , would frequent- ly call him the great boy , which the father once over- hearing , hearing , faid , you call him the great boy 6 THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
... - ed with the rudenefs of his behaviour , would frequent- ly call him the great boy , which the father once over- hearing , hearing , faid , you call him the great boy 6 THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
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... frequently be filent , when the utterance of a word would have infured him from cen- fure ; and , farther to be revenged for being disturbed when when he was as profitably employed as perhaps he could 12 THE LIFE OF fludies, he ...
... frequently be filent , when the utterance of a word would have infured him from cen- fure ; and , farther to be revenged for being disturbed when when he was as profitably employed as perhaps he could 12 THE LIFE OF fludies, he ...
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... frequent inftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious and moral improvement , had their proper effect ; and though they left his natural temper much as they found it , they begat in his mind those fentiments of ...
... frequent inftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious and moral improvement , had their proper effect ; and though they left his natural temper much as they found it , they begat in his mind those fentiments of ...
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... language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . Thefe circumftan- ces , ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , 22 THE LIFE OF.
... language is as fimple and unornamented as John Bunyan's ; the ftyle is far from elegant , and fometimes it is not even correct . Thefe circumftan- ces , ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , 22 THE LIFE OF.
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John Hawkins. ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , would almoft ftagger our belief , but that we have the authority of Johnson himself to rely on , who often acknowledged it for his own . As this voyage to ...
John Hawkins. ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , would almoft ftagger our belief , but that we have the authority of Johnson himself to rely on , who often acknowledged it for his own . As this voyage to ...
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350. 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.
299. oldal - ... representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other...
235. oldal - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience.
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.
197. oldal - Then, crush'd by rules, and weaken'd as refin'd, For years the pow'r of tragedy declin'd; From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept; Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd though Nature fled.
198. oldal - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
63. oldal - ... light that it appears to me, I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but, if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked, I am sure your humanity, and propensity to relieve merit in distress, will incline you to serve the poor man, without my adding any more to the -trouble I have already given you, than assuring you that I am, with great truth, sir, " Your faithful servant,
557. 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 throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
175. oldal - The books he used for this purpose were what he had in his own collection, a copious but a miserably ragged one, and all such as he could borrow; which latter, if ever they came back to those that lent them, were so defaced as to be scarce worth owning, and yet, some of his friends were glad to receive and entertain them as curiosities.
126. oldal - He will learn, sir, that to accuse and prove are very different, and that reproaches unsupported by evidence affect only the character of him that utters them. Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young...