The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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Side 190
... racter , deep learning , and fuperior parts , I acknow → ledge , admire , and refpect ; but whom it is fo impoffi- ble for me to love , that I am almost in a fever when- · · < с · ever I am in his company . His figure ( without ...
... racter , deep learning , and fuperior parts , I acknow → ledge , admire , and refpect ; but whom it is fo impoffi- ble for me to love , that I am almost in a fever when- · · < с · ever I am in his company . His figure ( without ...
Side 226
... racter of a really fine gentleman , much better than he who taught that infamy was the road to honour . In fhort , this is a work , in praise of which there is no danger of being too lavifh , for thofe must be wife- indeed who are not ...
... racter of a really fine gentleman , much better than he who taught that infamy was the road to honour . In fhort , this is a work , in praise of which there is no danger of being too lavifh , for thofe must be wife- indeed who are not ...
Side 328
... racter of a poet and a philologift : to his moral quali- ties , and his concern for the interefts of religion and virtue , the world were for fome time strangers ; but no fooner were thefe manifefled by the publication of the Rambler ...
... racter of a poet and a philologift : to his moral quali- ties , and his concern for the interefts of religion and virtue , the world were for fome time strangers ; but no fooner were thefe manifefled by the publication of the Rambler ...
Side 365
... racter , affected to appear men of the world . He thought of Dr. Clarke , whofe fermons he valued above all other , that he complied too frequently with invitations to dine with perfons of high rank , his pa- rifhioners , and fpent too ...
... racter , affected to appear men of the world . He thought of Dr. Clarke , whofe fermons he valued above all other , that he complied too frequently with invitations to dine with perfons of high rank , his pa- rifhioners , and fpent too ...
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... racter , and in the latter , page 220 , the following note of his fimpli- city . He was but coarsely used by the cavaliers , and when the fol- diers , who came to plunder him , brought down the fheets out of his chamber , into the room ...
... racter , and in the latter , page 220 , the following note of his fimpli- city . He was but coarsely used by the cavaliers , and when the fol- diers , who came to plunder him , brought down the fheets out of his chamber , into the room ...
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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.