Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life ... writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw dislocated ; so that when he opened his mouth ...
... writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life ... writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw dislocated ; so that when he opened his mouth ...
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... write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , " said Johnson , " but thou must ...
... write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , " said Johnson , " but thou must ...
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... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through ... writes : -The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of the ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through ... writes : -The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of the ...
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... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty2 , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . He would not , I ...
... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty2 , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . He would not , I ...
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Страница 85 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Страница 11 - Being angry with one who controverts an opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. Every man who attacks my belief diminishes, in some degree, my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy ; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. Those only who believed in revelation have been angry at having their faith called in question ; because they only had something upon which they could rest as matter of fact.