The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... circumstances , muft , befides the disguft which such an affectation of humility would excite , be convinced , that in some instances , the avoid- ing of egotisms had been extremely difficult , and in many impoffible . SAMUEL JOHNSON ...
... circumstances , muft , befides the disguft which such an affectation of humility would excite , be convinced , that in some instances , the avoid- ing of egotisms had been extremely difficult , and in many impoffible . SAMUEL JOHNSON ...
Side 3
... circumstance in his early life , of which evidence is yet remaining . While he was an apprentice at Leek in Staffordshire , a young woman of the fame town fell in love with him , and upon his removal to Lichfield fol- lowed him , and ...
... circumstance in his early life , of which evidence is yet remaining . While he was an apprentice at Leek in Staffordshire , a young woman of the fame town fell in love with him , and upon his removal to Lichfield fol- lowed him , and ...
Side 9
... circumstances were far from affluent , was for some time at a loss how to dispose of him : he took him home , probably with a view to bring him up to his own trade ; for I have heard Johnson say , that he himself was able to bind a book ...
... circumstances were far from affluent , was for some time at a loss how to dispose of him : he took him home , probably with a view to bring him up to his own trade ; for I have heard Johnson say , that he himself was able to bind a book ...
Side 11
... circumstance of his distress , that cannot be imputed to him as an effect of his own extravagance or ... circumstances , every one has much to learn : he had , doubtless , before this time , experienced the proud ' man's ...
... circumstance of his distress , that cannot be imputed to him as an effect of his own extravagance or ... circumstances , every one has much to learn : he had , doubtless , before this time , experienced the proud ' man's ...
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... circumstances at the time , I here translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death ...
... circumstances at the time , I here translate , and at the bottom of the page have in- ferted verbatim . 1732 , June 15 , I laid by eleven guineas ; on which day I received all of my father's effects which I can hope for till the death ...
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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.