The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine , and fince in fundry other publications , from Mr. Walmsley to his friend the reverend Mr. Colfon , a mathematician , and , in his later years , Lucasian profeffor at Cambridge , little is to be ...
... inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine , and fince in fundry other publications , from Mr. Walmsley to his friend the reverend Mr. Colfon , a mathematician , and , in his later years , Lucasian profeffor at Cambridge , little is to be ...
Side 47
... Diffugêre ni- ⚫ves , redeunt jam gramina campis ; ' all which are inferted in Cave's Magazine . if at any time he was inclined to begin the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 47 advances, or courting an intimacy with Johnfon, Up- ...
... Diffugêre ni- ⚫ves , redeunt jam gramina campis ; ' all which are inferted in Cave's Magazine . if at any time he was inclined to begin the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 47 advances, or courting an intimacy with Johnfon, Up- ...
Side 75
... inferted on the motion of Sir John Barnard , and a very judicious one it was , by which it was made penal , even with any such patent or licence , to act or represent any fuch interlude , & c . in any part of Great Britain , except in ...
... inferted on the motion of Sir John Barnard , and a very judicious one it was , by which it was made penal , even with any such patent or licence , to act or represent any fuch interlude , & c . in any part of Great Britain , except in ...
Side 89
... wants , which at one time were fo prefling as to induce him in a letter to Cave , hereinbefore inferted , to intimate to him that he wanted a dinner . Johnfon Johnfon who was never deficient in gratitude , for the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 89 ...
... wants , which at one time were fo prefling as to induce him in a letter to Cave , hereinbefore inferted , to intimate to him that he wanted a dinner . Johnfon Johnfon who was never deficient in gratitude , for the DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 89 ...
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... inferted in the news- ' papers at the charge of the proprietors of the London Magazine , is all the answer given to the remarks on their ⚫ inimitable preface , fome paffages of which are quoted in the " beginning of this magazine ...
... inferted in the news- ' papers at the charge of the proprietors of the London Magazine , is all the answer given to the remarks on their ⚫ inimitable preface , fome paffages of which are quoted in the " beginning of this magazine ...
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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.