The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 страници |
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... person's own difficulties and worries , to see how deep and minute an interest he took in the affairs of one who had actually obtained a place in his heart , and how sound and , above all things , honest an adviser he could be . His ...
... person's own difficulties and worries , to see how deep and minute an interest he took in the affairs of one who had actually obtained a place in his heart , and how sound and , above all things , honest an adviser he could be . His ...
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... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . ceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of ...
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . ceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of ...
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... person who is the subject of the book ; and in that there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts , as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable , and cer- tainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still ...
... person who is the subject of the book ; and in that there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts , as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable , and cer- tainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still ...
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... person named Jarvis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , whom he afterwards married . -MALONE . Mr. Taylor , who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions , and his success in trade , acquired an immense fortune . But the comfort of ...
... person named Jarvis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , whom he afterwards married . -MALONE . Mr. Taylor , who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions , and his success in trade , acquired an immense fortune . But the comfort of ...
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... person for whom Johnson wrote those verses , which have been erroneously ascribed to Mr. Ham- mond . I am obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of ...
... person for whom Johnson wrote those verses , which have been erroneously ascribed to Mr. Ham- mond . I am obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams wish write written wrote
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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'.