The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Derby & Jackson, 1860 |
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... JOHN WILSON CPOKFR , M.P * AND OOPIOTS NOTES E PIOZZI , MURPHY . TIERS . PE , NOLDS , MATONE , NI- 19 . MBERLAND , SCOTT , MAR LAND , BURNIR , BEAUVAy PORTSP . LUAN - PEN COMPLETE IN YOUR VOLUMES , VOL . I. NEW YORK : DERRY & JACKSON ...
... JOHN WILSON CPOKFR , M.P * AND OOPIOTS NOTES E PIOZZI , MURPHY . TIERS . PE , NOLDS , MATONE , NI- 19 . MBERLAND , SCOTT , MAR LAND , BURNIR , BEAUVAy PORTSP . LUAN - PEN COMPLETE IN YOUR VOLUMES , VOL . I. NEW YORK : DERRY & JACKSON ...
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... JOHN WILSON CROKER , M.P. AND COPIOUS NOTES BY HAWKINS , PIOZZI , MURPHY , TYERS , REYNOLDS , MALONE , NICHOLS , STEEVENS , CUMBERLAND , SCOTT , MARKLAND , BURNEY , BLAKEWAY , CHALMERS , PORTER , LANGTON , AND OTHERS . COMPLETE IN FOUR ...
... JOHN WILSON CROKER , M.P. AND COPIOUS NOTES BY HAWKINS , PIOZZI , MURPHY , TYERS , REYNOLDS , MALONE , NICHOLS , STEEVENS , CUMBERLAND , SCOTT , MARKLAND , BURNEY , BLAKEWAY , CHALMERS , PORTER , LANGTON , AND OTHERS . COMPLETE IN FOUR ...
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... John Wilson Croker ; who justly observes , that nothing could have prevented Boswell himself from making this arrangement , but the legal obstacle arising out of his previous con- tract with the bookseller who had published the Journal ...
... John Wilson Croker ; who justly observes , that nothing could have prevented Boswell himself from making this arrangement , but the legal obstacle arising out of his previous con- tract with the bookseller who had published the Journal ...
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... John Wilkes - Smollett - Letter to Mrs. Montagu - Mrs . Ogle - Mylne the Architect , . • 267 CHAPTER XIV . 1760-1763 . Miscellaneous Essays - Origin of Johnson's Acquaintance with Murphy - Akenside and Rolt- Mackenzie and Eccles ...
... John Wilkes - Smollett - Letter to Mrs. Montagu - Mrs . Ogle - Mylne the Architect , . • 267 CHAPTER XIV . 1760-1763 . Miscellaneous Essays - Origin of Johnson's Acquaintance with Murphy - Akenside and Rolt- Mackenzie and Eccles ...
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... John- son , the Equestrian - Clifton's Eating House - The Mitre - Colley Cibber's Odes - Gray- Belief in the Appearance of departed Spirits - Churchill - Cock - Lane Ghost - Goldsmith- Mallet's " Elvira " -Scotch Landlords - Plan of ...
... John- son , the Equestrian - Clifton's Eating House - The Mitre - Colley Cibber's Odes - Gray- Belief in the Appearance of departed Spirits - Churchill - Cock - Lane Ghost - Goldsmith- Mallet's " Elvira " -Scotch Landlords - Plan of ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards answer appears believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop bookseller Boswell Boswell's Burney Cave character College Colley Cibber conversation David Garrick dear Sir death desire Dictionary died Dodsley doubt edition eminent English Essay excellent father favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy heard honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL Joseph Warton kind King labour lady Langton language Latin learned letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter manner mentioned mind Miss mother never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet praise published Rambler received recollect remarkable Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Savage Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds style suppose talk tell THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told translation truth verses Warton wish write written wrote
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Страница 215 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Страница 59 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Страница 118 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Страница 216 - 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.
Страница 184 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Страница 330 - He had sagacity enough to cultivate assiduously the acquaintance of Johnson, and his faculties were gradually enlarged by the contemplation of such a model. To me and many others it appeared that he studiously copied the manner of Johnson, though, indeed, upon a smaller scale.
Страница 31 - But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from...
Страница 205 - ... fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop...
Страница 71 - James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Страница 241 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.