The Life of Samuel Johnson: 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 ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... thought , con- clude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . 2 This alludes to the first sentence of the Prooemium of my Thesis ...
... thought , con- clude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . 2 This alludes to the first sentence of the Prooemium of my Thesis ...
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... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
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... thought he had already done his part as a wri- ter . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ...
... thought he had already done his part as a wri- ter . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ...
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... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . Why , ( said the King , ) they seldom do these things by ...
... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . Why , ( said the King , ) they seldom do these things by ...
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... thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree ...
... thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree ...
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Страница 219 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Страница 213 - That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing.
Страница 140 - My request, therefore, is, that you would rectify this matter in your new edition. You are at liberty to make what use you please of this letter.
Страница 235 - ... and that the gentleman on whose account she was divorced had gained her heart while thus unhappily situated. Seduced, perhaps, by the charms of the lady in question, I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified ; for when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check : ' My dear sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't.
Страница 76 - While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! It is not [94] worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits.
Страница 75 - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
Страница 437 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Страница 245 - He was still more mortified, when talking in a company with fluent vivacity, and, as he flattered himself, to the admiration of all...
Страница 224 - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Страница 6 - Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...