Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's LivesH. G. Bohn, 1846 - 419 |
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... society Johnson had been admitted , none afforded so great encouragement to his literary talents as that of Mr. Walmsley , who lived in the Bishop's palace , and was registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court , and whom he has so eloquently ...
... society Johnson had been admitted , none afforded so great encouragement to his literary talents as that of Mr. Walmsley , who lived in the Bishop's palace , and was registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court , and whom he has so eloquently ...
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... society was very agreeable to him ; and he was , perhaps , glad to forget himself by joining at times in their sallies of juvenile gaiety . One night , when he had lodgings in the Temple , he was roused by their knocking at his door ...
... society was very agreeable to him ; and he was , perhaps , glad to forget himself by joining at times in their sallies of juvenile gaiety . One night , when he had lodgings in the Temple , he was roused by their knocking at his door ...
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... society of friends availed to prevent or to dissipate this melancholy . In 1762 , he made an excursion into Devonshire , with Sir Joshua Reynolds ; the next year he went to Harwich , with Boswell ; in the following , when his malady was ...
... society of friends availed to prevent or to dissipate this melancholy . In 1762 , he made an excursion into Devonshire , with Sir Joshua Reynolds ; the next year he went to Harwich , with Boswell ; in the following , when his malady was ...
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... society was afterwards extended , so as to comprise a large number of those who were most eminent , either for their learning or their station in life , and the place of meeting has been since at different times changed to other parts ...
... society was afterwards extended , so as to comprise a large number of those who were most eminent , either for their learning or their station in life , and the place of meeting has been since at different times changed to other parts ...
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... society , of the relations between the governors and the governed , and of all the compli- cated interests of polity and of civil life , his know- ledge was very limited . Biography was his favourite study ; history , his aversion ...
... society , of the relations between the governors and the governed , and of all the compli- cated interests of polity and of civil life , his know- ledge was very limited . Biography was his favourite study ; history , his aversion ...
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Strona 282 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Strona 244 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Strona 36 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Strona 52 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Strona 61 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Strona 213 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Strona 243 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power, but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own.
Strona 10 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French.
Strona 221 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Strona 221 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod, How oft, pursuing fancies holy, My moonlight way o'er flowering weeds I wound, Inspired, beyond the guess of folly, By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound!