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, Tom 2W. Andrews and L. Blake, and Cushing and Appleton, Salem, 1807 |
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... Garrick had complained to me of it , and had vindicated himself by assuring me , that Johnson was made welcome to ... Garrick wanted to be court- ed for them , and that , on the contrary , Garrick should have courted him , and sent him ...
... Garrick had complained to me of it , and had vindicated himself by assuring me , that Johnson was made welcome to ... Garrick wanted to be court- ed for them , and that , on the contrary , Garrick should have courted him , and sent him ...
Strona 71
... Garrick for being vain . JOHNSON . " No wonder , Sir , that he is vain ; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived . So many bellows have blown the fire , that one wonders he is not by this time become a ...
... Garrick for being vain . JOHNSON . " No wonder , Sir , that he is vain ; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived . So many bellows have blown the fire , that one wonders he is not by this time become a ...
Strona 74
... Garrick had re- marked to me of him , a few days before , " Rabelais and all other wits are nothing compared with him . You may be diverted by them ; but Johnson gives you a forcible hug , and shakes laughter out of you whether you will ...
... Garrick had re- marked to me of him , a few days before , " Rabelais and all other wits are nothing compared with him . You may be diverted by them ; but Johnson gives you a forcible hug , and shakes laughter out of you whether you will ...
Strona 77
... Garrick's compliment to 64 . the Queen , which he introduced into the play of The Chances , ' which he had altered and revised this year , was mean and gross flattery ; -JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , I would not write , I would not give ...
... Garrick's compliment to 64 . the Queen , which he introduced into the play of The Chances , ' which he had altered and revised this year , was mean and gross flattery ; -JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , I would not write , I would not give ...
Strona 81
... Garrick , Dr. Gold- smith , Mr. ( afterwards Sir William ) Jones , and the company with whom I had dined . Upon my entrance , Johnson placed himself behind a chair , on which he leaned as on a desk or pulpit , and with humourous for ...
... Garrick , Dr. Gold- smith , Mr. ( afterwards Sir William ) Jones , and the company with whom I had dined . Upon my entrance , Johnson placed himself behind a chair , on which he leaned as on a desk or pulpit , and with humourous for ...
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Strona 426 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Strona 166 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Strona 444 - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
Strona 369 - tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound.
Strona 442 - ... dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. ' Sir, (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.
Strona 316 - Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth, is that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of buildings in London.
Strona 422 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Strona 73 - the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill," continued ht;, " consists in making them talk like little fishes.
Strona 23 - But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Strona 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.