The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Tom 41851 |
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... honour of his encouragement made me think well of myself , and aspire to deserve it better . He had a happy art of communicating his varied knowledge of the world , in short remarks and anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity that was ...
... honour of his encouragement made me think well of myself , and aspire to deserve it better . He had a happy art of communicating his varied knowledge of the world , in short remarks and anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity that was ...
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... honour to adopt a Life of Young written by that gentleman , who was the friend of Dr. Young's son , and wished to vindicate him from some very erroneous remarks to his pre- judice . Mr. Croft's performance was subjected to the revision ...
... honour to adopt a Life of Young written by that gentleman , who was the friend of Dr. Young's son , and wished to vindicate him from some very erroneous remarks to his pre- judice . Mr. Croft's performance was subjected to the revision ...
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... honour to my great friend , I shall entirely disregard any invidious suggestions , that as I in some degree participate in the honour , I have , at the same time , the gratification of my own vanity in view . " SIR , 66 TO JAMES BOSWELL ...
... honour to my great friend , I shall entirely disregard any invidious suggestions , that as I in some degree participate in the honour , I have , at the same time , the gratification of my own vanity in view . " SIR , 66 TO JAMES BOSWELL ...
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... honoured by your visit , I had too much pleasure from it to forget it . By those whom we delight to remember , we are unwilling to be forgotten ; and therefore I cannot omit this opportunity of reviving myself in your memory by a letter ...
... honoured by your visit , I had too much pleasure from it to forget it . By those whom we delight to remember , we are unwilling to be forgotten ; and therefore I cannot omit this opportunity of reviving myself in your memory by a letter ...
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... a ripe and good one ; And to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him , he died fearing Heaven . " - BOSWELL . Mrs. Thrale and I had a dispute , whether Shakspeare 4 D AGE 72. ] 57 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... a ripe and good one ; And to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him , he died fearing Heaven . " - BOSWELL . Mrs. Thrale and I had a dispute , whether Shakspeare 4 D AGE 72. ] 57 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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Strona 70 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Strona 101 - 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 throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Strona 270 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Strona 77 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Strona 35 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could fright my faith than Three in One...
Strona 100 - His ready help was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retir'd to die.
Strona 186 - There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Strona 77 - ... some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar; it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him; together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.
Strona 33 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Strona 122 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...