The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 страници |
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... opinion upon Boswell's Parliament House ' clash , ' was remark- ably and indeed absurdly unfair , writes thus : " I have frequently observed , in comparing the conduct of the court and the country party ( i.e. the Tories and the Whigs ) ...
... opinion upon Boswell's Parliament House ' clash , ' was remark- ably and indeed absurdly unfair , writes thus : " I have frequently observed , in comparing the conduct of the court and the country party ( i.e. the Tories and the Whigs ) ...
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... opinion to drink it — it made him forget the pain of being He was still Hercules , but not in fetters . He thought clearly , but not in agony ; he spoke exactly , but also freely . Within the whole range of English literature , we had ...
... opinion to drink it — it made him forget the pain of being He was still Hercules , but not in fetters . He thought clearly , but not in agony ; he spoke exactly , but also freely . Within the whole range of English literature , we had ...
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... Opinion on a point of Scotch Law 194 Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds Advertisement to the First Edition Subsequent Editions Motto CHAP . I. - Introductory CHAP . 11. 1709-1716 . - Birth and Infancy of John- son - His Parents ...
... Opinion on a point of Scotch Law 194 Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds Advertisement to the First Edition Subsequent Editions Motto CHAP . I. - Introductory CHAP . 11. 1709-1716 . - Birth and Infancy of John- son - His Parents ...
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... Opinions of Hume -Johnson's Criticisms on Lyric Poetry - Arrival at Derby - Johnson's Opinion of Water - drink- ing - Intimacy between Johnson and Dr. Taylor -Johnson's Conversational Powers . CHAP . XLII . 1777-1778 . - Mrs . Macaulay ...
... Opinions of Hume -Johnson's Criticisms on Lyric Poetry - Arrival at Derby - Johnson's Opinion of Water - drink- ing - Intimacy between Johnson and Dr. Taylor -Johnson's Conversational Powers . CHAP . XLII . 1777-1778 . - Mrs . Macaulay ...
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... opinion which he has given , ' that every man's life may be best writ- ten by himself ; had he employed , in the pre- servation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many ...
... opinion which he has given , ' that every man's life may be best writ- ten by himself ; had he employed , in the pre- servation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many ...
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Страница 72 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Страница 72 - Dictionary 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. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Страница 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Страница 72 - 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 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Страница 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Страница 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Страница 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Страница 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Страница 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.