The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 oldal |
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95. oldal
... remarked . The reducing this crude matter into form , was the work of a future day and of an abler hand , viz . Guthrie , the hiftorian , a writer for the bookfellers , whom Cave retained for the purpose : the fpeeches thus compofed ...
... remarked . The reducing this crude matter into form , was the work of a future day and of an abler hand , viz . Guthrie , the hiftorian , a writer for the bookfellers , whom Cave retained for the purpose : the fpeeches thus compofed ...
124. oldal
... remarked , that Johnson had the art to give different colours to the feveral fpeeches , so that some appear to be declama- tory and energetic , refembling the orations of De- mofthenes ; others like thofe of Cicero , calm , perfua- five ...
... remarked , that Johnson had the art to give different colours to the feveral fpeeches , so that some appear to be declama- tory and energetic , refembling the orations of De- mofthenes ; others like thofe of Cicero , calm , perfua- five ...
184. oldal
... remarked , oftner defeat than effect their purpose , and together with thefe , the general exercife of that diffimulation which was one of the maft prominent features in his own character . The letters from lord Chefterfield to his fan ...
... remarked , oftner defeat than effect their purpose , and together with thefe , the general exercife of that diffimulation which was one of the maft prominent features in his own character . The letters from lord Chefterfield to his fan ...
225. oldal
... remarked of him , that he looked upon the restraints on a life of pleasure with an unapproving eye . He had an exquifite palate , and had improved his relish for meats and drinks up to fuch a degree of refinement , that I once found him ...
... remarked of him , that he looked upon the restraints on a life of pleasure with an unapproving eye . He had an exquifite palate , and had improved his relish for meats and drinks up to fuch a degree of refinement , that I once found him ...
264. oldal
... remarked , that malevolence to the clergy is feldom at a great diftance from irreverence for religion . He faw the features of that malevolence Lord Macclesfield , when chief - juftice , was used often to have him at his house , and was ...
... remarked , that malevolence to the clergy is feldom at a great diftance from irreverence for religion . He faw the features of that malevolence Lord Macclesfield , when chief - juftice , was used often to have him at his house , and was ...
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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.