Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III, Količina 2Baudry's European Library, 1846 - 301 strani |
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... labour of teaching he never could inure himself ; and it was rendered more intolerable by the duty which devolved upon him of acting as kind of lay- chaplain to Sir Walter Dixie , the patron of the school , a situation in which he was ...
... labour of teaching he never could inure himself ; and it was rendered more intolerable by the duty which devolved upon him of acting as kind of lay- chaplain to Sir Walter Dixie , the patron of the school , a situation in which he was ...
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... labour as is to be found in the history of letters . No man ever was more an author by profession than he appears to have been for a quarter of a century ; and he suffered during that period all the evils incident to that precarious ...
... labour as is to be found in the history of letters . No man ever was more an author by profession than he appears to have been for a quarter of a century ; and he suffered during that period all the evils incident to that precarious ...
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... labour must contribute to the supply of his bodily wants . The exertion , no doubt , when once made , is the best medicine for the disease ; but it is the peculiar operation of the disease to render all such exertion painful in the ...
... labour must contribute to the supply of his bodily wants . The exertion , no doubt , when once made , is the best medicine for the disease ; but it is the peculiar operation of the disease to render all such exertion painful in the ...
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... labour of teaching , however hateful to him , that he might escape from the drudgery and the uncertainties of a poor author's life . Unfortunately the rules of the foundation required that the master should have the degree of M.A , and ...
... labour of teaching , however hateful to him , that he might escape from the drudgery and the uncertainties of a poor author's life . Unfortunately the rules of the foundation required that the master should have the degree of M.A , and ...
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... labour of his life in magazines , reviews , prefaces , and smaller essays , for the booksellers , in correcting the works of authors , and even superintending the press for publishers , appears to have been , during these five - and ...
... labour of his life in magazines , reviews , prefaces , and smaller essays , for the booksellers , in correcting the works of authors , and even superintending the press for publishers , appears to have been , during these five - and ...
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Stran 162 - summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was
Stran 162 - on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several
Stran 3 - find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues Here are no Hottentots without religious piety or articulable language, no Chinese perfectly polite
Stran 31 - to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden;
Stran 3 - human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 169 - Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending once or twice in the course of the evening to talk with me. The great historian was light and playful,
Stran 235 - was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had given an indirect solution of the problem concerning the Precession ; the Nutation had only been by
Stran 156 - Yet listen to his moan over the want of that sovereign authority which a social position exercises, but so as to make its service perfect freedom compared with the slavery of nullity and ennui. " While so many of my acquaintance were married, or in Parliament, or advancing with a rapid step in the various roads
Stran 169 - Johnson. Their manners and tastes, both in writing and conversation, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with Johnson, in his rusty brown suit, and his black worsted stockings. Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flowered velvet, with a
Stran 22 - amidst the murmurs of envy and the gratulations of applause; attended from pleasure to pleasure by the great, the sprightly, and the vain; their regard solicited by the obsequiousness of gallantry, the gayety of wit, and the timidity of love;'