The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 5. kötetJ. Murray, 1831 |
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... happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " 23d June , 1781 . " DEAR SIR , -It was not before yesterday that I received your splendid benefaction . To a hand so liberal in distri- buting , I hope nobody will envy the power of ...
... happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " 23d June , 1781 . " DEAR SIR , -It was not before yesterday that I received your splendid benefaction . To a hand so liberal in distri- buting , I hope nobody will envy the power of ...
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... happy . " For some months past I have been so withdrawn from the world , that I can send you nothing particular . All your friends , however , are well , and will be glad of your return to London . I am , dear sir , yours most ...
... happy . " For some months past I have been so withdrawn from the world , that I can send you nothing particular . All your friends , however , are well , and will be glad of your return to London . I am , dear sir , yours most ...
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... happy in a better state . Pray for me , my dear Lucy , " Make my compliments to Mrs. Cobb , and Miss Adey , and my old friend , Hetty Bailey , and to all the Lichfield ladies . I am , dear madam , yours , affectionately , " SAM ...
... happy in a better state . Pray for me , my dear Lucy , " Make my compliments to Mrs. Cobb , and Miss Adey , and my old friend , Hetty Bailey , and to all the Lichfield ladies . I am , dear madam , yours , affectionately , " SAM ...
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... happy death ? I am , dear sir , yours most affectionately , " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " Without a date , but supposed to be about this time . " DEAR SIR , -That you and dear Mrs. Careless should have care or curiosity about my ...
... happy death ? I am , dear sir , yours most affectionately , " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " Without a date , but supposed to be about this time . " DEAR SIR , -That you and dear Mrs. Careless should have care or curiosity about my ...
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... happy would it be if we could see one another , and be all tolerably well . " Let us pray for one another . I am , dearest ladies , your most obliged and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " DR . JOHNSON TO MISS REYNOLDS . " 8th ...
... happy would it be if we could see one another , and be all tolerably well . " Let us pray for one another . I am , dearest ladies , your most obliged and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " DR . JOHNSON TO MISS REYNOLDS . " 8th ...
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acknowl acquaintance afterwards Anec anecdote answer appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention authour believe BENNET LANGTON Bolt-court Boswell's Brocklesby Burke Burney called character club compliments conversation COURTENAY dear sir death desire Dictionary died dined doctor doubt dropsy edition editor favour Francis Barber gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Hawk Heberden honour Hoole hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL Johnson kind lady Langton learned letter Lichfield live London Lord Lord Thurlow LUCY PORTER madam Malone mentioned mind MISS REYNOLDS never night observed occasion once opinion Oxford perhaps person physicians Piozzi pleased pleasure Pozz prayers publick received recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seems sick Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Steevens Strahan Streatham suppose talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told wish words write written wrote
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177. oldal - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
19. 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...
108. oldal - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ?
431. oldal - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
18. oldal - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
249. oldal - Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.
262. oldal - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known, teach me by thy Holy Spirit, to withdraw my mind from unprofitable and dangerous enquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and doubts impossible to be solved.
287. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
176. oldal - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?" JOHNSON. "A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk; but I do not despair." MRS. ADAMS. " You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
265. oldal - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault.