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Stran 16
... praise had been taken from him . Three days after the publication of the last " Rambler " Mrs. Johnson died . " The man who has passed through such a trial knows well that whatever may be in store for him in the dark future it can have ...
... praise had been taken from him . Three days after the publication of the last " Rambler " Mrs. Johnson died . " The man who has passed through such a trial knows well that whatever may be in store for him in the dark future it can have ...
Stran 17
... praising Johnson and treating him as a dictator of the language . They were written by Chesterfield , who " fell a - scribbling , " to quote Johnson's phrase , in the hope that the magnum opus would be dedicated to him . The advance was ...
... praising Johnson and treating him as a dictator of the language . They were written by Chesterfield , who " fell a - scribbling , " to quote Johnson's phrase , in the hope that the magnum opus would be dedicated to him . The advance was ...
Stran 47
... praise which at no period of his life could the writer have honestly given . In " The Vanity of Human Wishes , " on the contrary , written in imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal , and published eleven years later , John- son had a ...
... praise which at no period of his life could the writer have honestly given . In " The Vanity of Human Wishes , " on the contrary , written in imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal , and published eleven years later , John- son had a ...
Stran 50
... praise nor reward , all that he can look for is to escape reproach , and even this negative recompense is granted to very few . " It is easy to see , however , despite the depressed tone of the Preface , which drew tears from his ...
... praise nor reward , all that he can look for is to escape reproach , and even this negative recompense is granted to very few . " It is easy to see , however , despite the depressed tone of the Preface , which drew tears from his ...
Stran 51
... praise of perfection , which , if I could obtain , in this gloom of solitude , what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave , and success and miscarriage are ...
... praise of perfection , which , if I could obtain , in this gloom of solitude , what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave , and success and miscarriage are ...
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Stran 14 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Stran 13 - 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 48 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Stran 48 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country']. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people].
Stran 19 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Stran 35 - I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still.
Stran 68 - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Stran 32 - I then kissed her. She told me that to part was the greatest pain that she had ever felt, and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place. I expressed with swelled eyes, and great emotion of tenderness, the same hopes. We kissed and parted. I humbly hope to meet again, and to part no more...
Stran 60 - In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more. The effusions of passion, which exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes is tumour, meanness, tediousness, and obscurity.
Stran 48 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...