Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeT. and J. Allman, 1826 - 237 oldal |
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... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and , reflecting on Ra- phael's St John at that time , as upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and , reflecting on Ra- phael's St John at that time , as upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
35. oldal
... nature , smiling art . Venus , courted by an ode , On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right Now Anacreon rules my flight : His the letters that you see , Weighty charge consign'd to me : Think not yet my service hard ...
... nature , smiling art . Venus , courted by an ode , On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right Now Anacreon rules my flight : His the letters that you see , Weighty charge consign'd to me : Think not yet my service hard ...
45. oldal
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road : Young froths , and ...
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road : Young froths , and ...
55. oldal
... nature could no farther go , To make a third she join❜d the former two . One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr. Johnson went with me to Co- vent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceeding bad ...
... nature could no farther go , To make a third she join❜d the former two . One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr. Johnson went with me to Co- vent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceeding bad ...
58. oldal
... , in an interrup- ted voice ; ' tis nature that is gelidè and timidè . In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning 58 ANECDOTES OF.
... , in an interrup- ted voice ; ' tis nature that is gelidè and timidè . In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning 58 ANECDOTES OF.
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