The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... must I write ? Why write , answered he , so : Here lies good Master Duck , That Samuel Johnfon trod on , If't had liv'd ' twould have been good luck , For then there'd been an odd one . and fhe wrote accordingly . Being arrived at a ...
... must I write ? Why write , answered he , so : Here lies good Master Duck , That Samuel Johnfon trod on , If't had liv'd ' twould have been good luck , For then there'd been an odd one . and fhe wrote accordingly . Being arrived at a ...
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... must have actuated his unknown benefactor , that , with all the indignation of an infulted man , he threw them away . He may be fuppofed to have been under the age of twenty , when this imaginary indignity was offered him , a period of ...
... must have actuated his unknown benefactor , that , with all the indignation of an infulted man , he threw them away . He may be fuppofed to have been under the age of twenty , when this imaginary indignity was offered him , a period of ...
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... must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid through poverty , nor want drive me into wickedness * . In the month of June in the following year , 1733 , I find him refident in the house of a perfon ...
... must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid through poverty , nor want drive me into wickedness * . In the month of June in the following year , 1733 , I find him refident in the house of a perfon ...
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... must be ima- gined , the inftruction of fo fmall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to purfue his D4 private private studies and amusements , which , for the most DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a ...
... must be ima- gined , the inftruction of fo fmall a number of scholars as were under his care , left him at leifure to purfue his D4 private private studies and amusements , which , for the most DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 39 of turning out a ...
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... must suppose fome employed in the contemplation of his fortunes , the means of improving them , and of refifting the adverfe accidents to which human life is expofed , and of which he had already had fome experience . The stage holds ...
... must suppose fome employed in the contemplation of his fortunes , the means of improving them , and of refifting the adverfe accidents to which human life is expofed , and of which he had already had fome experience . The stage holds ...
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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.