The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, 1. kötetHenry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 oldal |
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... seemed to be much diverted with the tat . 30 feeble efforts of his unknown adverfary , who , I hope , is alive to read this account . " Now ( said he ) here is somebody who thinks he has vexed me fadly ; yet , if it had not been for you ...
... seemed to be much diverted with the tat . 30 feeble efforts of his unknown adverfary , who , I hope , is alive to read this account . " Now ( said he ) here is somebody who thinks he has vexed me fadly ; yet , if it had not been for you ...
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... seemed at first to catch at the proposition , but , after a paufe , faid , in his abrupt decifive manner , " I believe I fhall not undertake it . " That he , however , had bestowed much thought upon the subject , before he published his ...
... seemed at first to catch at the proposition , but , after a paufe , faid , in his abrupt decifive manner , " I believe I fhall not undertake it . " That he , however , had bestowed much thought upon the subject , before he published his ...
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... seemed utterly improbable that they should at all agree , had so ardent a love of literature , fo acute an understanding , fuch elegance of manners , and fo well difcerned the excellent qualities of Mr. Langton , that they became ...
... seemed utterly improbable that they should at all agree , had so ardent a love of literature , fo acute an understanding , fuch elegance of manners , and fo well difcerned the excellent qualities of Mr. Langton , that they became ...
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... seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , ' I once had been a whole morning fliding [ kating ] in Chrift - Church Meadow , and miffed his lecture in logick . After dinner , he fent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke ...
... seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , ' I once had been a whole morning fliding [ kating ] in Chrift - Church Meadow , and miffed his lecture in logick . After dinner , he fent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke ...
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... seemed pleased with this compliment , which I fincerely paid him , and anfwered , " Sir , I am obliged to any man who vifits me . " I have preserved the following fhort minute of what paffed this day . " Madness frequently discovers ...
... seemed pleased with this compliment , which I fincerely paid him , and anfwered , " Sir , I am obliged to any man who vifits me . " I have preserved the following fhort minute of what paffed this day . " Madness frequently discovers ...
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36. oldal - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
243. oldal - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
225. oldal - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
141. oldal - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
68. oldal - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you...
40. oldal - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
141. oldal - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
2. oldal - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
257. oldal - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
68. 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.