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, Band 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 Seiten |
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... about one half of the book had passed through the prefs ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for * which he generously would accept of no other reward but which x ADVERTISEMENT .
... about one half of the book had passed through the prefs ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for * which he generously would accept of no other reward but which x ADVERTISEMENT .
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... admirable demonftration of the reasonableness of the legal fucceffion , upon the principle of there being the greatest probability that the nearest heir of the perfon who laft dies proprietor of an estate , is of the blood of the first ...
... admirable demonftration of the reasonableness of the legal fucceffion , upon the principle of there being the greatest probability that the nearest heir of the perfon who laft dies proprietor of an estate , is of the blood of the first ...
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... admiration and affection for him . I fhall ever recollect this fcene with great pleasure . I exclaimed to her , " I am now , intellectually , Hermippus redivivus , I am quite reftored by him , by transfufion of mind . " " There are many ...
... admiration and affection for him . I fhall ever recollect this fcene with great pleasure . I exclaimed to her , " I am now , intellectually , Hermippus redivivus , I am quite reftored by him , by transfufion of mind . " " There are many ...
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... admiration of the activity and diligence and good fortune of Mr. Green , in getting together , in his fituation , fo great a variety of things ; and Mr. Green told me , that Johnfon once faid to him , " Sir , I fhould 1 I should as foon ...
... admiration of the activity and diligence and good fortune of Mr. Green , in getting together , in his fituation , fo great a variety of things ; and Mr. Green told me , that Johnfon once faid to him , " Sir , I fhould 1 I should as foon ...
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... admiration of his powers . He once obferved to me , " Whatever opinion Johnson maintains , I will not fay that he convinces me , but he never fails to fhow me , that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his Lordship ...
... admiration of his powers . He once obferved to me , " Whatever opinion Johnson maintains , I will not fay that he convinces me , but he never fails to fhow me , that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his Lordship ...
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Seite 350 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Seite 83 - But he has wit too, and is not deficient in ideas, or in fertility and variety of imagery, and not empty of reading; he has knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands; but he's gone, Sir, when you think you have got him — like an animal that jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is under...
Seite 157 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 458 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen, that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty ; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Seite 390 - ... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Seite 152 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Seite 160 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Seite 235 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy*. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ', nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Seite 318 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Seite 253 - All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's