The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... present question required ; ' and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquifitions , made in , a state of apparent negligence < and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of reading or method of study , but involved ...
... present question required ; ' and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquifitions , made in , a state of apparent negligence < and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of reading or method of study , but involved ...
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... present Cavendish family was his gentleman - usher , at a falary of ten pounds a year : and , to justify the practice of perfonal fervitude at meals , we have an example of a child waiting on his parents while at dinner , in the Pietas ...
... present Cavendish family was his gentleman - usher , at a falary of ten pounds a year : and , to justify the practice of perfonal fervitude at meals , we have an example of a child waiting on his parents while at dinner , in the Pietas ...
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... present to him , was one , named Irene , a Greek , of incomparable beauty and fuch rare per- fection of body and mind , that the emperor becoming enamoured of her , neglected the care of his govern- ment and empire for two whole years ...
... present to him , was one , named Irene , a Greek , of incomparable beauty and fuch rare per- fection of body and mind , that the emperor becoming enamoured of her , neglected the care of his govern- ment and empire for two whole years ...
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... present Dr. Price . The pupils of this academy had heads that teemed with knowledge , which , as fast as they acquired it , they were prompted by a juvenile and laudable ambition to communicate in letters to Mr. Urban . To this account ...
... present Dr. Price . The pupils of this academy had heads that teemed with knowledge , which , as fast as they acquired it , they were prompted by a juvenile and laudable ambition to communicate in letters to Mr. Urban . To this account ...
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... present under very disadvantage- ous circumstances of fortune . I beg , therefore , that you will favour me with a letter to - morrow , that I may know what you can afford to allow him , that he may either part with it to you , or find ...
... present under very disadvantage- ous circumstances of fortune . I beg , therefore , that you will favour me with a letter to - morrow , that I may know what you can afford to allow him , that he may either part with it to you , or find ...
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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.