The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... pleased to inform me , in two pofts , what the con- ' ditions are on which you shall expect it . Your late ' offer * gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . ' If you engage in any literary projects befides this * A prize of ...
... pleased to inform me , in two pofts , what the con- ' ditions are on which you shall expect it . Your late ' offer * gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . ' If you engage in any literary projects befides this * A prize of ...
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... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this fcheme ; and appoint me a day to wait on you , if you are . ' I am , Sir , your humble fervant , SAM . JOHNSON . ' : Cave's acquiefcence , in the above ...
... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this fcheme ; and appoint me a day to wait on you , if you are . ' I am , Sir , your humble fervant , SAM . JOHNSON . ' : Cave's acquiefcence , in the above ...
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... pleased to inform me , by the Penny - Post , whether you refolve to print the poem . If you please to fend it me by the post , with a note to Dodfley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his confent to put his name ...
... pleased to inform me , by the Penny - Post , whether you refolve to print the poem . If you please to fend it me by the post , with a note to Dodfley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his confent to put his name ...
Side 98
... pleased with the infertion of what he calls the appendix to captain Gulliver's account of Lilliput , in their room . A change of fictitious for real names of perfons , countries , and provinces , was abfolutely neceffary for the ...
... pleased with the infertion of what he calls the appendix to captain Gulliver's account of Lilliput , in their room . A change of fictitious for real names of perfons , countries , and provinces , was abfolutely neceffary for the ...
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... to an illegi- timate fon , now extant * . Johnson was fo little pleased * Letter 220 . with his once fuppofed patron , that he forbore not & with 176 THE LIFE OF enced the patronage of any other than bookfellers, ...
... to an illegi- timate fon , now extant * . Johnson was fo little pleased * Letter 220 . with his once fuppofed patron , that he forbore not & with 176 THE LIFE OF enced the patronage of any other than bookfellers, ...
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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.