The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... observed , that a gentleman of eminence in li- terature had got into a bad style of poetry of late . " He puts , " said he , " a very common thing in a strange dress , till he does not know it himself , and thinks other people do not ...
... observed , that a gentleman of eminence in li- terature had got into a bad style of poetry of late . " He puts , " said he , " a very common thing in a strange dress , till he does not know it himself , and thinks other people do not ...
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... observed , " that they were founded on a trivial conceit ; and that conceit ill - explained , and ill - expressed beside . The lady , we all know , does not conquer in the same manner as the lion does : ' tis a mere play of words ...
... observed , " that they were founded on a trivial conceit ; and that conceit ill - explained , and ill - expressed beside . The lady , we all know , does not conquer in the same manner as the lion does : ' tis a mere play of words ...
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... observed , " It is true all this excludes only one evil ; but how much good does it let in ! " - First edition . To this observa- tion much praise has been justly given . Let me then now do myself the honour to mention that the lady who ...
... observed , " It is true all this excludes only one evil ; but how much good does it let in ! " - First edition . To this observa- tion much praise has been justly given . Let me then now do myself the honour to mention that the lady who ...
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... observed , also , Goldsmith's " Animated Nature ; " and said , " Here's our friend ! The poor doctor would have been happy to hear of this . ” In our way , Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post - chaise 1 . " If ...
... observed , also , Goldsmith's " Animated Nature ; " and said , " Here's our friend ! The poor doctor would have been happy to hear of this . ” In our way , Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post - chaise 1 . " If ...
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... observed it was too dear ; for that he could have vessels of silver , of the same size , as cheap as what were here made of porcelain1 . I felt a pleasure in walking about Derby , such as I always have in walking about any town to which ...
... observed it was too dear ; for that he could have vessels of silver , of the same size , as cheap as what were here made of porcelain1 . I felt a pleasure in walking about Derby , such as I always have in walking about any town to which ...
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428. oldal - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
476. oldal - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
124. oldal - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
29. oldal - find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
477. oldal - ... it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
440. oldal - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
103. oldal - We have no sermons addressed to the passions that are good for any thing; if you mean that kind of eloquence." A CLERGYMAN, (whose name I do not recollect.) " Were not Dodd's sermons addressed to the" passions?" JOHNSON. "They were nothing, sir, be they addressed to what they may.
224. oldal - O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head.
476. oldal - Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...
464. oldal - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.