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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... principles led him to favour the pretenfi- ons of the exiled family , and that though a very honest and fenfible man , he , like many others inhabiting the county of Stafford , was a Jacobite . It may farther be fuppofed , that he was ...
... principles led him to favour the pretenfi- ons of the exiled family , and that though a very honest and fenfible man , he , like many others inhabiting the county of Stafford , was a Jacobite . It may farther be fuppofed , that he was ...
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... principles of the Jefuits . Having completed this tranflation , which I con- jecture he was paid for by fome bookfeller of Birming- ham , who publifhed it in an octavo volume , Johnson , in February 1733-4 , left that place , and ...
... principles of the Jefuits . Having completed this tranflation , which I con- jecture he was paid for by fome bookfeller of Birming- ham , who publifhed it in an octavo volume , Johnson , in February 1733-4 , left that place , and ...
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... - ver neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of revelation was unfhaken ; his learning preferved his principles ; he grew firft regular , and then pious . • His His ftudies had been so various , that I am 34 THE LIFE OF.
... - ver neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of revelation was unfhaken ; his learning preferved his principles ; he grew firft regular , and then pious . • His His ftudies had been so various , that I am 34 THE LIFE OF.
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... principles of patriotism , that both , for fome years after , avowed ; they both with the fame eye faw , or believed they faw , that the then minifter meditated the ruin of this coun- try ; that excife laws , ftanding armies , and penal ...
... principles of patriotism , that both , for fome years after , avowed ; they both with the fame eye faw , or believed they faw , that the then minifter meditated the ruin of this coun- try ; that excife laws , ftanding armies , and penal ...
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... principles maintained in the poem , and afterwards , a commen- tary thereon containing particular remarks on every paragraph . The former of these it was that Johnson tranflated , as appears by the following letter of his to Cave ...
... principles maintained in the poem , and afterwards , a commen- tary thereon containing particular remarks on every paragraph . The former of these it was that Johnson tranflated , as appears by the following letter of his to Cave ...
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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.