The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Derby & Jackson, 1860 |
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... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH . " " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIIL 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Bos- well writes a regular journal of our ...
... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH . " " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIIL 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Bos- well writes a regular journal of our ...
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... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learn- ing , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learn- ing , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
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... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap thereabouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : Why now , says my uncle , I could leap it in my boots ; and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another uncle ...
... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap thereabouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : Why now , says my uncle , I could leap it in my boots ; and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another uncle ...
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... honour to human nature.1 Talking to me himself once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
... honour to human nature.1 Talking to me himself once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
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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.