The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... himself was able to bind a book . This suspense continued about two years , at the end whereof , a neighbouring gentleman , Mr. Andrew Corbet , hav- ing a fon , who had been educated in the same school with Johnfon , whom he was about ...
... himself was able to bind a book . This suspense continued about two years , at the end whereof , a neighbouring gentleman , Mr. Andrew Corbet , hav- ing a fon , who had been educated in the same school with Johnfon , whom he was about ...
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... himself so expert a writer , that he took in business , and ⚫ earned some pence by hackney - writing . And thus , by degrees , * he pushed his faculties , and fell to forms ; and , by books that . * were lent him , became an exquisite ...
... himself so expert a writer , that he took in business , and ⚫ earned some pence by hackney - writing . And thus , by degrees , * he pushed his faculties , and fell to forms ; and , by books that . * were lent him , became an exquisite ...
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... himself to any particular study . A paf- • fion for reading was his ruling passion , and a prodi- • gious memory his great talent : he read every book • almost indifferently , as they happened to come into • his hands : he read them ...
... himself to any particular study . A paf- • fion for reading was his ruling passion , and a prodi- • gious memory his great talent : he read every book • almost indifferently , as they happened to come into • his hands : he read them ...
Side 17
... himself has thought fit to give , in his life of the Earl of Rochester , where may be seen a Latin poem upon Nothing , written by Passerat ; for the infertion whereof he had , as it is said , no other aid than his own recollection . How ...
... himself has thought fit to give , in his life of the Earl of Rochester , where may be seen a Latin poem upon Nothing , written by Passerat ; for the infertion whereof he had , as it is said , no other aid than his own recollection . How ...
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... himself from the power of Abysinia , and thought , that as he had afforded them fuccour , they should be safe in his domi- nions ; but they were foon convinced of their error , by receiving orders to prepare to serve , or in other words ...
... himself from the power of Abysinia , and thought , that as he had afforded them fuccour , they should be safe in his domi- nions ; but they were foon convinced of their error , by receiving orders to prepare to serve , or in other words ...
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Side 544 - 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 482 - 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 490 - 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.