The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Harper & Bros., 1846 |
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... honour to Dr. Johnson's purity and piety ; but very different would be their character , if it appeared that he had ostentatiously prepared them for the press . See more on this subject in the notes , vol . i . p . 97 , and vol . ii ...
... honour to Dr. Johnson's purity and piety ; but very different would be their character , if it appeared that he had ostentatiously prepared them for the press . See more on this subject in the notes , vol . i . p . 97 , and vol . ii ...
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... honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith 1 . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell writes a regular Journal of our ...
... honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith 1 . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell 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 Wor- shipful 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 Wor- shipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twen- ty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twen- ty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
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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 oracle2 . " Having said thus much by way of intro- duction , I commit the ...
... 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 oracle2 . " Having said thus much by way of intro- duction , I commit the ...
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Страница 434 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
Страница 109 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Страница 109 - 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 109 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Страница 123 - 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 109 - 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 174 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression 'come from Scotland...
Страница 296 - The misfortune of Goldsmith in conversation is this : he goes on without knowing how he is to get off. His genius is great, but his knowledge is small. As they say of a generous man, it is a pity he is not rich, we may say of Goldsmith, it is a pity he is not knowing. He would not keep his knowledge to himself.
Страница 189 - I believe, sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Страница 310 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...