The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Količina 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 strani |
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... less distinguish'd lot , Glad to be hid , and proud to be forgot . EPILOGUE , intended to have been spoken by a LADY who was to perfonate the Gheft of HERMIONE . YE blooming train , who give despair or joy , Bless with a smile , or with ...
... less distinguish'd lot , Glad to be hid , and proud to be forgot . EPILOGUE , intended to have been spoken by a LADY who was to perfonate the Gheft of HERMIONE . YE blooming train , who give despair or joy , Bless with a smile , or with ...
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... less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article , you will not be difpleased , if , in order to the improve- ment of it , I communicate to you the fentiments of a perfon , who will undertake , on reasonable terms ...
... less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article , you will not be difpleased , if , in order to the improve- ment of it , I communicate to you the fentiments of a perfon , who will undertake , on reasonable terms ...
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... less certain , by the vices which always bring it on . " This last paffage is worked up in the tragedy itself , as follows : LEONTIU S. That power that kindly spreads " The clouds , a fignal of impending fhowers , " To warn the wand ...
... less certain , by the vices which always bring it on . " This last paffage is worked up in the tragedy itself , as follows : LEONTIU S. That power that kindly spreads " The clouds , a fignal of impending fhowers , " To warn the wand ...
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... less elegant , is more just : " Nothing in poverty fo ill is borne , " As its expofing men to grinning fcorn . " Where , or in what manner this poem was compofed , I am forry that I neglected to ascertain with precifion , from Johnson's ...
... less elegant , is more just : " Nothing in poverty fo ill is borne , " As its expofing men to grinning fcorn . " Where , or in what manner this poem was compofed , I am forry that I neglected to ascertain with precifion , from Johnson's ...
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... less than Paul Whitehead . " I may here obferve , that Johnfon appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occafion when he was mentioned , and , in my opinion , did not do him juftice ; but when it is confidered that Paul ...
... less than Paul Whitehead . " I may here obferve , that Johnfon appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occafion when he was mentioned , and , in my opinion , did not do him juftice ; but when it is confidered that Paul ...
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Stran 296 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Stran 142 - 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 239 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
Stran 141 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Stran 142 - 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 243 - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Stran 225 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Stran 252 - I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Stran 1 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Stran 141 - 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.