The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2Sands & Company, 1900 - 726 страници |
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... means to have him introduced to Mr Jorden , who was to be his tutor . His being put under any tutor , reminds us of what Wood says of Robert Burton , author of the " Anatomy of Melancholy , " when elected student of Christ- church ...
... means to have him introduced to Mr Jorden , who was to be his tutor . His being put under any tutor , reminds us of what Wood says of Robert Burton , author of the " Anatomy of Melancholy , " when elected student of Christ- church ...
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... means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggrava- tion . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease which ...
... means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggrava- tion . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease which ...
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... means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . 66 The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly displays ...
... means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . 66 The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly displays ...
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... means pleasing to others , she must have had a superiority of understanding and talents , as she certainly inspired him with a more than ordi- nary passion ; and she having signified her wil- lingness to accept of his hand , he went to ...
... means pleasing to others , she must have had a superiority of understanding and talents , as she certainly inspired him with a more than ordi- nary passion ; and she having signified her wil- lingness to accept of his hand , he went to ...
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... means of Mr Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Lucy Porter told me , that Mr Walmesley gave him a letter of introduction to Lintot , his book- seller , and that Johnson wrote some things for him ; but I imagine this to be a ...
... means of Mr Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Lucy Porter told me , that Mr Walmesley gave him a letter of introduction to Lintot , his book- seller , and that Johnson wrote some things for him ; but I imagine this to be a ...
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Страница 370 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; . Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Страница 366 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Страница 61 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Страница 60 - I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, 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. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or...
Страница 95 - I have preserved the following short minute of what passed this day. " Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding...
Страница 134 - But, sir, does not affecting a warmth when you have no warmth, and appearing to be clearly of one opinion when you are in reality of another opinion, does not such dissimulation impair one's honesty? Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends? JOHNSON: Why no, sir. Everybody knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation : the moment you come from the bar you resume your...
Страница 93 - I found that I had a very perfect idea of Johnson's figure, from the portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation, which was the first picture his friend did for him, which Sir Joshua very kindly presented to me, and from which an engraving has been made for this work.
Страница 108 - 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 fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Страница 70 - There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner: the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the publick.
Страница 308 - had been in his mind before he left London. JOHNSON : " Why, yes, Sir, the topics were ; and books of travels will be good in proportion to what a man has previously in his mind ; his knowing what to observe : his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish proverb says, ' He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.