The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... refolution to depend for a livelihood upon what he should be able , either in the way of original composition , or translation , or in edit- ing the works of celebrated authors , to procure by his studies , and , in fhort , to become an ...
... refolution to depend for a livelihood upon what he should be able , either in the way of original composition , or translation , or in edit- ing the works of celebrated authors , to procure by his studies , and , in fhort , to become an ...
Side 41
... refolution to filence the clamours of his people , by the facrifice of this ad- mirable creature : accordingly , on a future day , he commanded her to be dreffed and adorned in the richest manner that fhe and her attendants could de ...
... refolution to filence the clamours of his people , by the facrifice of this ad- mirable creature : accordingly , on a future day , he commanded her to be dreffed and adorned in the richest manner that fhe and her attendants could de ...
Side 56
... refolution of quarrelling with the adminiftration of public affairs , and becoming a fatirift on the manners of the times ; and because he thought he faw a resemblance between his own and thofe of Rome in its decline , he chofe to ...
... refolution of quarrelling with the adminiftration of public affairs , and becoming a fatirift on the manners of the times ; and because he thought he faw a resemblance between his own and thofe of Rome in its decline , he chofe to ...
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... refolution was to frequent the two houfes whenever an important debate was likely to come on , and from fuch expreffions and par- ticulars in the course thereof as could be collected and retained in memory , to give the arguments on ...
... refolution was to frequent the two houfes whenever an important debate was likely to come on , and from fuch expreffions and par- ticulars in the course thereof as could be collected and retained in memory , to give the arguments on ...
Side 98
... refolution of the house of commons , above - mentioned , whereby he was for- bidden to infert any account of the proceedings of the British parliament , he pretends to doubt not but his readers will be pleased with the infertion of what ...
... refolution of the house of commons , above - mentioned , whereby he was for- bidden to infert any account of the proceedings of the British parliament , he pretends to doubt not but his readers will be pleased with the infertion of what ...
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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.