The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous : to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor DoddG. Kearsley ... [and 5 others], 1804 - 394 strani |
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... pleased with the thoughts of possessing it . " That " ( said he to me one day ) is the great misery of late marriages ; the unhappy produce of them becomes the plaything of dotage : an old man's child , " continued he , " leads much ...
... pleased with the thoughts of possessing it . " That " ( said he to me one day ) is the great misery of late marriages ; the unhappy produce of them becomes the plaything of dotage : an old man's child , " continued he , " leads much ...
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... had the honour and happiness of contributing to its restoration . * He then lived in Johnfon's Court , Fleet Street , whence he af- terwards removed to Bolt Court , where he died . One One day , when he was not pleased with our [ 12 ]
... had the honour and happiness of contributing to its restoration . * He then lived in Johnfon's Court , Fleet Street , whence he af- terwards removed to Bolt Court , where he died . One One day , when he was not pleased with our [ 12 ]
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... pleased with our dinner I asked him , if he ever huffed his wife about his din- ner ? " So often ( replied he ) that at last she called to me , and said , Nay , hold Mr. Johnson , and do not make a farce of thanking God for a dinner ...
... pleased with our dinner I asked him , if he ever huffed his wife about his din- ner ? " So often ( replied he ) that at last she called to me , and said , Nay , hold Mr. Johnson , and do not make a farce of thanking God for a dinner ...
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... pleased with the opportunity which writing the Poets Lives gave him to display it . He loved to be set at work , and was sorry when he came to the end of the business he was about . I do not feel so myself with regard to these sheets ...
... pleased with the opportunity which writing the Poets Lives gave him to display it . He loved to be set at work , and was sorry when he came to the end of the business he was about . I do not feel so myself with regard to these sheets ...
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... obliged to live there , it would be difficult to find a tree on which to fasten the rope . " -Walking in a wood when it rained , was , I think , the only rural image he pleased his fancy with : with ; " for ( says he ) after one [ 18 ]
... obliged to live there , it would be difficult to find a tree on which to fasten the rope . " -Walking in a wood when it rained , was , I think , the only rural image he pleased his fancy with : with ; " for ( says he ) after one [ 18 ]
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beauty calamity censure character common considered contempt Cowley crime danger daughters of fortune death delight desire Doctor Dryden easily endeavour equally evil excellence eyes Falkland Islands fame faults favour fear folly fortune frequently friendship genius give guilt happiness honour hope human Ibid idle Idler imagination Johnson kind knowledge known labour laws less lives Lord mankind MARRIAGE ment mind miscarriage misery nation nature necessary ness never Notes upon Shakspeare observed once opinion ourselves pain panegyric passions perhaps pleased pleasure poet poetry polished language Pope praise Preface to Shakspeare pride Prince of Abyssinia produce prudence Rambler reason repentance riches Roger Ascham SAMUEL JOHNSON says scarcely seldom Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Thomas Browne sometimes stancy Streatham suffer superiority things thought Thrale tion truth vanity virtue Western Islands wish writer
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Stran 47 - 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...
Stran 46 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Stran 256 - 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 of thinking beings.
Stran 46 - World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Stran 47 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Stran 138 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Stran 119 - His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies.
Stran 47 - 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 91 - And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely ; who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Stran 270 - Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will...