The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - 602 страници |
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... defire either to inftruct or delight . Bred to no profeffion , without relations , friends , or inte- reft , Johnson was an adventurer in the wide world , and had his fortunes to make : the arts of infinuation and address were , in his ...
... defire either to inftruct or delight . Bred to no profeffion , without relations , friends , or inte- reft , Johnson was an adventurer in the wide world , and had his fortunes to make : the arts of infinuation and address were , in his ...
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... defire was to encrease the demand for his pamphlet . Indeed the experiment had already been made , for the fpeeches in parliament had for fome time been given in the Political State of Great Britain , a publication above spoken of , and ...
... defire was to encrease the demand for his pamphlet . Indeed the experiment had already been made , for the fpeeches in parliament had for fome time been given in the Political State of Great Britain , a publication above spoken of , and ...
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... defire a sentence not fupported by evidence or conformable to truth , or that they can wifh the ruin of any man whofe crimes are not no- ' torious and flagrant , that they perfecute from pri- ' vate malice , or endeavour to exalt ...
... defire a sentence not fupported by evidence or conformable to truth , or that they can wifh the ruin of any man whofe crimes are not no- ' torious and flagrant , that they perfecute from pri- ' vate malice , or endeavour to exalt ...
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... defire , therefore , my lords , that this bill may ⚫ be confidered in a committee , is only to defire that it may gain one step without oppofition , that it may proceed through the forms of the house by stealth , and that the ...
... defire , therefore , my lords , that this bill may ⚫ be confidered in a committee , is only to defire that it may gain one step without oppofition , that it may proceed through the forms of the house by stealth , and that the ...
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... defire to difplay his fkill in English literature and rational criticism in their wideft extent , in both which requifites the deficiences of the former edi- tions were obvious . Of thofe of the players and others , down to the year ...
... defire to difplay his fkill in English literature and rational criticism in their wideft extent , in both which requifites the deficiences of the former edi- tions were obvious . Of thofe of the players and others , down to the year ...
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Страница 558 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Страница 153 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Страница 491 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Страница 196 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Страница 34 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
Страница 184 - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
Страница 60 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
Страница 433 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Страница 168 - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
Страница 195 - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.