Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journal Into North Wales, Količina 1Harper & Brothers, 1799 |
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Stran xxvi
... the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more 1 See post , ii . 39 , 486-8 , 504 . ? See post , iv . 486 . 3 Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ii . 425 . favourable Preface . xxvii favourable opportunity may come . I have.
... the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more 1 See post , ii . 39 , 486-8 , 504 . ? See post , iv . 486 . 3 Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ii . 425 . favourable Preface . xxvii favourable opportunity may come . I have.
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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : -'Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : -'Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
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... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruc- tion or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an ...
... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruc- tion or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an ...
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... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ' . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ' . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
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... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was ' touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never ' touched . ' The service ...
... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was ' touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never ' touched . ' The service ...
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Stran 259 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Stran 363 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me. Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new open'd : O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Stran 303 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Stran 304 - t night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it ? Old M. 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Stran 302 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Stran 478 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press which he produced to me.
Stran 302 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Stran 542 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Stran 447 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Stran 110 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.