The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... hear this ; but who- ever quits the creeks of private connexions , and fairly 99 66 9 Lord Macartney , who , with his other distinguished qualities , is remarkable also for an elegant pleasantry , told me that he met Johnson at Lady ...
... hear this ; but who- ever quits the creeks of private connexions , and fairly 99 66 9 Lord Macartney , who , with his other distinguished qualities , is remarkable also for an elegant pleasantry , told me that he met Johnson at Lady ...
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... hear such an outcry against it . " THRALE . " There may be few people absolutely ruined by deep play ; but very many are much hurt in their circumstances by it . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , and so are very many by other kinds of expence ...
... hear such an outcry against it . " THRALE . " There may be few people absolutely ruined by deep play ; but very many are much hurt in their circumstances by it . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , and so are very many by other kinds of expence ...
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... hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Mur- phy said , he remembered when ...
... hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Mur- phy said , he remembered when ...
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... hear what they can tell of their religion . " On Monday , April 29 , he and I made an excursion to Bristol , where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot , into the authenticity of " Row- ley's Poetry , " as I had seen ...
... hear what they can tell of their religion . " On Monday , April 29 , he and I made an excursion to Bristol , where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot , into the authenticity of " Row- ley's Poetry , " as I had seen ...
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... hear it said , very gravely , Why was not the half guinea , thus spent in luxury given to the poor ? might it have afforded a good meal . ' gone to the industrious poor , whom it port than the idle poor ? You are much surer that you are ...
... hear it said , very gravely , Why was not the half guinea , thus spent in luxury given to the poor ? might it have afforded a good meal . ' gone to the industrious poor , whom it port than the idle poor ? You are much surer that you are ...
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Página 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Página 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Página 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Página 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Página 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Página 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Página 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Página 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.