The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... visited her , and made her a tender of his hand , but feeling the approach of death , she declined it , and shortly after died , and was interred in Lichfield cathedral . In pity was used to tell him , precluded all hope of preferment ...
... visited her , and made her a tender of his hand , but feeling the approach of death , she declined it , and shortly after died , and was interred in Lichfield cathedral . In pity was used to tell him , precluded all hope of preferment ...
Side 61
... visits to his native country , the king drained this of its wealth . That Johnfon has adopted these vulgar complaints , his poem must witness . I shall not take upon me to demonftrate the fallacy of most of the charges contain- ed in it ...
... visits to his native country , the king drained this of its wealth . That Johnfon has adopted these vulgar complaints , his poem must witness . I shall not take upon me to demonftrate the fallacy of most of the charges contain- ed in it ...
Side 93
... visit his beautiful " Garden of Eden ; raving against Common Sense * , and " the London Magazine , and finging a mad fong fet " to music by Peter the Wild Youth ; but being at " laft secured , was conveyed to his lodgings in Moor ...
... visit his beautiful " Garden of Eden ; raving against Common Sense * , and " the London Magazine , and finging a mad fong fet " to music by Peter the Wild Youth ; but being at " laft secured , was conveyed to his lodgings in Moor ...
Side 180
... visit from lord Chefterfield , whom she had frequently seen and converfed with at court . After the usual compli- ments had passed , his lordship in that easy gay. * He was also long - vilaged and long - necked , but from the shoul- ders ...
... visit from lord Chefterfield , whom she had frequently seen and converfed with at court . After the usual compli- ments had passed , his lordship in that easy gay. * He was also long - vilaged and long - necked , but from the shoul- ders ...
Side 189
... visit , and being admitted into an anti - chamber , was told , that his lordship was engaged with a gentleman , but ... visits made upon his lordship , we are told by the latter in a character of him , which , as well for the sake ...
... visit , and being admitted into an anti - chamber , was told , that his lordship was engaged with a gentleman , but ... visits made upon his lordship , we are told by the latter in a character of him , which , as well for the sake ...
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Side 350 - 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 127 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Side 490 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Side 521 - ... too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound.
Side 438 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Side 363 - 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 186 - I have received two letters from you, one written in Latin, the other in French ; which I take in good part, and will you to exercise that practice of learning often : for that will stand you in most stead, in that profession of life that you are born to live in. And...
Side 198 - For years the pow'r of tragedy declin'd; From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept; Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd though Nature fled.
Side 292 - 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 287 - The place appointed was the Devil Tavern, and there, about the hour of eight, Mrs. Lenox and her husband, and a lady of her acquaintance, still [1785] living, as also the club, and friends to the number of near twenty, assembled.