The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Derby & Jackson, 1860 |
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... respect to the minor biographers of Johnson , the Editors now pro- ceed to a few remarks on the great work of Boswell . His Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides in 1773 , was published in 1785 , the year after Johnson's death , in one ...
... respect to the minor biographers of Johnson , the Editors now pro- ceed to a few remarks on the great work of Boswell . His Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides in 1773 , was published in 1785 , the year after Johnson's death , in one ...
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... respect and reverence due to literature , morals , and religion ; and posterity gratefully acknowledges the taste , temper , and talents with which he selected , enjoyed , and described that polished and intellectual society which still ...
... respect and reverence due to literature , morals , and religion ; and posterity gratefully acknowledges the taste , temper , and talents with which he selected , enjoyed , and described that polished and intellectual society which still ...
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... respect to Dr. Johnson , this has been in some degree accomplished ; and , although the greater part of the present generation never saw him , yet he is , in our mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady ...
... respect to Dr. Johnson , this has been in some degree accomplished ; and , although the greater part of the present generation never saw him , yet he is , in our mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady ...
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... respects , it presents to the Doctor's own works . Instead of the pompous common- places which he was in the habit of piling together and rounding into periods in his closet , his behaviour and conversation in company might be described ...
... respects , it presents to the Doctor's own works . Instead of the pompous common- places which he was in the habit of piling together and rounding into periods in his closet , his behaviour and conversation in company might be described ...
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... respect , this Work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour , " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications , and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit ...
... respect , this Work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour , " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications , and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit ...
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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.