The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 oldal |
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7. oldal
... engaged in talking to him- felf than his companion . Verses or themes he would dictate to his favourites , but he would never be at the trouble of writing them . His diflike to business was fo great , that he would procraftinate his ...
... engaged in talking to him- felf than his companion . Verses or themes he would dictate to his favourites , but he would never be at the trouble of writing them . His diflike to business was fo great , that he would procraftinate his ...
26. oldal
... engaged , returned to Goa . The revenge , which it was reported in Abyffinia , the court of Portugal meditated , rendered a people naturally inhuman , ferocious : the remaining miffion- aries experienced ftill harder fate than Lobo and ...
... engaged , returned to Goa . The revenge , which it was reported in Abyffinia , the court of Portugal meditated , rendered a people naturally inhuman , ferocious : the remaining miffion- aries experienced ftill harder fate than Lobo and ...
43. oldal
... engaged in ; and this leads me to mention a fact concerning them both , that I had from a perfon now living , who was a witnefs to it , and of whofe veracity the leaft doubt cannot be entertained . They had been but a fhort time in ...
... engaged in ; and this leads me to mention a fact concerning them both , that I had from a perfon now living , who was a witnefs to it , and of whofe veracity the leaft doubt cannot be entertained . They had been but a fhort time in ...
46. oldal
... engaged to pay him who should write the best poem on certain fubjects ; in all or most of which competi- tions Mr. Browne had the good fortune to fucceed . He published these and other poems of his writing , in an octavo volume , Lond ...
... engaged to pay him who should write the best poem on certain fubjects ; in all or most of which competi- tions Mr. Browne had the good fortune to fucceed . He published these and other poems of his writing , in an octavo volume , Lond ...
64. oldal
... engaged in the like defign , and was supported therein by Dr. Zachary Pearce , and alfo by most of the bishops , and by many of the dignified clergy , which being the cafe , the folicitations in behalf of the two verfions croffed < Vide ...
... engaged in the like defign , and was supported therein by Dr. Zachary Pearce , and alfo by most of the bishops , and by many of the dignified clergy , which being the cafe , the folicitations in behalf of the two verfions croffed < Vide ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
550. 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.
484. oldal - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
198. oldal - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
289. oldal - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
360. oldal - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
342. oldal - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
62. oldal - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
126. oldal - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
347. 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.
492. oldal - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.