The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson. PoemsT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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... Some of the people neither fowed their lands , nor improved them by any kind of culture , living upon milk and flesh , and , like , the Arabs , encamping without any fettled ha- bitation . In some places they practifed no rites of ...
... Some of the people neither fowed their lands , nor improved them by any kind of culture , living upon milk and flesh , and , like , the Arabs , encamping without any fettled ha- bitation . In some places they practifed no rites of ...
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... Some theorists afcribe it to the high winds , that ftop the current , and force the water above its banks . Others pretend a fubterraneous communication be- tween the Ocean and the Nile , and that the fea , when violently agitated ...
... Some theorists afcribe it to the high winds , that ftop the current , and force the water above its banks . Others pretend a fubterraneous communication be- tween the Ocean and the Nile , and that the fea , when violently agitated ...
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... Some years afterwards , when the prefent writer was intimate with Garrick , and knew Johnfon to be in diftrefs , he asked the manager why he did not produce another tra- gedy for his Lichfield friend ? Garrick's anfwer was remarkable ...
... Some years afterwards , when the prefent writer was intimate with Garrick , and knew Johnfon to be in diftrefs , he asked the manager why he did not produce another tra- gedy for his Lichfield friend ? Garrick's anfwer was remarkable ...
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... Some of the most valuable effays in that collection were from the pen of Johnfon . The Dictionary was completed towards the end of 1754 ; and , Cave being then no more , it was a mortification to the author of that noble addition to our ...
... Some of the most valuable effays in that collection were from the pen of Johnfon . The Dictionary was completed towards the end of 1754 ; and , Cave being then no more , it was a mortification to the author of that noble addition to our ...
132. oldal
... some of the early vo- lumes of the Magazine , with a profeffed inten- tion to point out the pieces which he had writ- ten in that collection . The books lay on the table , with many leaves doubled down , and in particular thofe which ...
... some of the early vo- lumes of the Magazine , with a profeffed inten- tion to point out the pieces which he had writ- ten in that collection . The books lay on the table , with many leaves doubled down , and in particular thofe which ...
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176. oldal - But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
165. oldal - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
174. oldal - Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee...
57. oldal - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
174. oldal - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
17. oldal - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing; but if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked...
174. oldal - scape, despis'd or aw'd, Rebellion's vengeful talons seize on Laud. From meaner minds, though smaller fines content The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep.
172. oldal - To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And Detestation rids th
176. oldal - ... which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord.
174. oldal - Ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day ; Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting...