The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - 602 oldal |
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... great wit and stupendous parts , but of very profligate manners . He was chaplain to Lord Chesterfield during his refidence at the Hague ; but , as his lordship was find it noted in his diary , on the feventh 2 THE LIFE OF.
... great wit and stupendous parts , but of very profligate manners . He was chaplain to Lord Chesterfield during his refidence at the Hague ; but , as his lordship was find it noted in his diary , on the feventh 2 THE LIFE OF.
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... manner of reading , between that perfon and Johnson : the former , fays his author , seems never to ⚫ have applied himself to any particular study . A paf- fion for reading was his ruling paffion , and a prodi- gious memory his great ...
... manner of reading , between that perfon and Johnson : the former , fays his author , seems never to ⚫ have applied himself to any particular study . A paf- fion for reading was his ruling paffion , and a prodi- gious memory his great ...
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... manners , he , notwithstanding the ferocity of his temper , reverenced the clergy as a body of men , who have been the greatest improvers of learning , and to whom mankind have the highest obligations ; but lamented that the race was ...
... manners , he , notwithstanding the ferocity of his temper , reverenced the clergy as a body of men , who have been the greatest improvers of learning , and to whom mankind have the highest obligations ; but lamented that the race was ...
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... manners , and natural hiftory of Abyffinia , and other countries mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears stronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit ...
... manners , and natural hiftory of Abyffinia , and other countries mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears stronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit ...
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... manners it defcribes are wonderful and interesting , has not been fo much noticed as Johnson's later and original productions , it may not be thought impertinent to give the outline of the relation . About the beginning of the ...
... manners it defcribes are wonderful and interesting , has not been fo much noticed as Johnson's later and original productions , it may not be thought impertinent to give the outline of the relation . About the beginning of the ...
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558. 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.
153. oldal - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
491. oldal - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
196. 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.
34. oldal - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
184. oldal - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
60. oldal - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
433. oldal - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
168. oldal - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
195. oldal - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.