The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.W. P. Nimmo, 1873 - 560 страници |
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... pleased to favour me : - These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character ; of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits : for , excepting ...
... pleased to favour me : - These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character ; of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits : for , excepting ...
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... pleased with this proof of Johnson's abilities as a dra - scholar and poet , and I have great hopes will matic writer , and advised him to finish the tragedy and produce it on the stage . CHAPTER V. 1737-1741 . JOHNSON now thought of ...
... pleased with this proof of Johnson's abilities as a dra - scholar and poet , and I have great hopes will matic writer , and advised him to finish the tragedy and produce it on the stage . CHAPTER V. 1737-1741 . JOHNSON now thought of ...
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... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' It should seem from this letter ...
... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . - I am , sir , your humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' It should seem from this letter ...
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... pleased with Johnson's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . And , indeed , I cannot conceive a man better qualified to make a distinguished figure as a lawyer ; for he ...
... pleased with Johnson's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . And , indeed , I cannot conceive a man better qualified to make a distinguished figure as a lawyer ; for he ...
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... pleased to visit St. John's Gate , and show particular marks of their being pleased . ' ' Augustus still survives in Maro's strain , And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign ; Great George's acts let tuneful Cibber sing , For nature ...
... pleased to visit St. John's Gate , and show particular marks of their being pleased . ' ' Augustus still survives in Maro's strain , And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign ; Great George's acts let tuneful Cibber sing , For nature ...
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Страница 451 - 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. Seven years, My Lord, have now passed 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...
Страница 118 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
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 72 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Страница 17 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken; his learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Страница 193 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Страница 72 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Страница 121 - 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 98 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.