The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... fubject of the following memoirs , was the elder of the two fons of Michael Johnfon , of the city of Lichfield bookfeller , and of Sarah his wife , a fifter of Dr. Jofeph Ford , a phyfician of great eminence , and father of the famous ...
... fubject of the following memoirs , was the elder of the two fons of Michael Johnfon , of the city of Lichfield bookfeller , and of Sarah his wife , a fifter of Dr. Jofeph Ford , a phyfician of great eminence , and father of the famous ...
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... fubject , might render him an object of imitation , and poffibly of ridicule , with his pupils . It may be remembered that in a preceding page , Johnfon is faid to have refided for fome months , in the year 1734 , in the houfe of a ...
... fubject , might render him an object of imitation , and poffibly of ridicule , with his pupils . It may be remembered that in a preceding page , Johnfon is faid to have refided for fome months , in the year 1734 , in the houfe of a ...
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... fubject I am engaged in ; and this leads me to mention a fact concerning them both , that I had from a perfon now living , who was a witnefs to it , and of whofe veracity the leaft doubt cannot be entertained . They had been but a fhort ...
... fubject I am engaged in ; and this leads me to mention a fact concerning them both , that I had from a perfon now living , who was a witnefs to it , and of whofe veracity the leaft doubt cannot be entertained . They had been but a fhort ...
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... fubject : I told him it would lofe of its beauty if it were fo publifhed : this he could not fee ; nor could he be convinced of the propriety of the name Fidele : he thought Paftora a better , and fo printed it . He was fo incompetent a ...
... fubject : I told him it would lofe of its beauty if it were fo publifhed : this he could not fee ; nor could he be convinced of the propriety of the name Fidele : he thought Paftora a better , and fo printed it . He was fo incompetent a ...
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... fubject him to cenfure this he , for fome time , regard- ed but little , relying poffibly upon the indulgence that had been fhewn as well to the publishers of the Political State of Great Britain , who were the first that ventured on ...
... fubject him to cenfure this he , for fome time , regard- ed but little , relying poffibly upon the indulgence that had been fhewn as well to the publishers of the Political State of Great Britain , who were the first that ventured on ...
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Side 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Side 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Side 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Side 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Side 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Side 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Side 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Side 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Side 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Side 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.