The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolatory Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Том 2W. Andrews and L. Blake, and Cushing and Appleton, Salem, 1807 |
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... to me thus : You judge very rightly in supposing that Dr. John- son's favourable opinion of my book must give me great delight . Indeed it is impossible for me to say how much I am gratified by it ; for there is 52 THE LIFE OF.
... to me thus : You judge very rightly in supposing that Dr. John- son's favourable opinion of my book must give me great delight . Indeed it is impossible for me to say how much I am gratified by it ; for there is 52 THE LIFE OF.
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... judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the impression is fresh , for it will not be the same a week afterwards . " I again solicited him to communicate to me the par- ticulars of his early life . He said ...
... judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the impression is fresh , for it will not be the same a week afterwards . " I again solicited him to communicate to me the par- ticulars of his early life . He said ...
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... Judges upon them , would be valuable . " On Thursday , April 15 , I dined with him and Dr. Goldsmith at General Paoli's . We found here Signor Martinelli , of Florence , authour of a History of England in Italian , printed at London . I ...
... Judges upon them , would be valuable . " On Thursday , April 15 , I dined with him and Dr. Goldsmith at General Paoli's . We found here Signor Martinelli , of Florence , authour of a History of England in Italian , printed at London . I ...
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... Judge , and may speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON . " Sir , a for- eigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the errour and mistak- en enthusiasm of the people among whom he happens to be ...
... Judge , and may speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON . " Sir , a for- eigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the errour and mistak- en enthusiasm of the people among whom he happens to be ...
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... judge of it . " GOLDSMITH . " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , that is not to the purpose of our argument : that will as much prove that he can play upon the fid- dle as well as Giardini ...
... judge of it . " GOLDSMITH . " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , that is not to the purpose of our argument : that will as much prove that he can play upon the fid- dle as well as Giardini ...
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Страница 437 - I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems," by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.