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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... showed abilities far above those of his comrades . His quickness of apprehension made learning ex- ceedingly easy to him , and he had an extraordinary power of me . mory , which stood by him through life . His school companions well ...
... showed abilities far above those of his comrades . His quickness of apprehension made learning ex- ceedingly easy to him , and he had an extraordinary power of me . mory , which stood by him through life . His school companions well ...
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... showed it to others ; an act never forgiven by the author . He had recourse te various expe- dients to drive away this frightful malady , but in vain . Sometimes he would take violent bodily exercise , walking to Birmingham and back ...
... showed it to others ; an act never forgiven by the author . He had recourse te various expe- dients to drive away this frightful malady , but in vain . Sometimes he would take violent bodily exercise , walking to Birmingham and back ...
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... showed any dis- position to conceal the particulars of it . The sad experience which he had of its effects appears frequently to have been in his thoughts when writing ; and it can , I conceive , be more particularly traced in his ...
... showed any dis- position to conceal the particulars of it . The sad experience which he had of its effects appears frequently to have been in his thoughts when writing ; and it can , I conceive , be more particularly traced in his ...
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... in 1755. The Prospectus had been inscribed to Lord Chesterfield , then ( 1747 ) Secretary of State , and had received , when showed him in manu- script , that able and accomplished person's high approval . JOHNSON . 27.
... in 1755. The Prospectus had been inscribed to Lord Chesterfield , then ( 1747 ) Secretary of State , and had received , when showed him in manu- script , that able and accomplished person's high approval . JOHNSON . 27.
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... showed it to any one that asked to see it , and let it lie on his table open that all might read who pleased . The followers of Johnson quote this as a proof of his dissimulation ; possibly he overdid it ; but they should recollect how ...
... showed it to any one that asked to see it , and let it lie on his table open that all might read who pleased . The followers of Johnson quote this as a proof of his dissimulation ; possibly he overdid it ; but they should recollect how ...
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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;'