The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Том 101835 |
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... mean by completely wicked . " " I mean , " returned Sir Joshua , 66 % a man lost to all sense of shame . " Dr. Johnson replied , that to be completely wicked , a man must be also lost to all sense of conscience . " Sir Joshua said , he ...
... mean by completely wicked . " " I mean , " returned Sir Joshua , 66 % a man lost to all sense of shame . " Dr. Johnson replied , that to be completely wicked , a man must be also lost to all sense of conscience . " Sir Joshua said , he ...
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... means a rare character in the present age ; when Johnson replied , " I have known a great many ladies who knew Latin , but very few who knew En- glish . " A lady observed , that women surpassed men in epistolary correspondence . Johnson ...
... means a rare character in the present age ; when Johnson replied , " I have known a great many ladies who knew Latin , but very few who knew En- glish . " A lady observed , that women surpassed men in epistolary correspondence . Johnson ...
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... means of subsistence ? Porter has died poor , in con- sequence of his wife's expensive habits . You have great ... mean extraction , that I have no money , and that I have had an uncle hanged . " She replied , that she - 66 valued no one ...
... means of subsistence ? Porter has died poor , in con- sequence of his wife's expensive habits . You have great ... mean extraction , that I have no money , and that I have had an uncle hanged . " She replied , that she - 66 valued no one ...
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... means of subsistence . Meantime , Lucy Porter kept the best company in our little city , but would make no engagement on market days , lest Granny , as she called Mrs. Johnson , should catch cold by serving in the shop . By these good ...
... means of subsistence . Meantime , Lucy Porter kept the best company in our little city , but would make no engagement on market days , lest Granny , as she called Mrs. Johnson , should catch cold by serving in the shop . By these good ...
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... mean the genius of the place . This is a sort of inspiring deity , which every youth of quick sensibility and ingenious disposition creates to himself , by reflecting that he is placed under those venerable walls where a Hooker and a ...
... mean the genius of the place . This is a sort of inspiring deity , which every youth of quick sensibility and ingenious disposition creates to himself , by reflecting that he is placed under those venerable walls where a Hooker and a ...
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Страница 92 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Страница 94 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Страница 71 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Страница 179 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Страница 79 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Страница 231 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Страница 77 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Страница 64 - Magazine, with a professed intention to point out the pieces which he had written in that collection. The books lay on the table, with many leaves doubled down, and in particular those which contained his share in the Parliamentary Debates.