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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... means but drinking . " We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney 3 The phrase " vexing thoughts , " is , I think , very expressive . It has been familiar to me from my ...
... means but drinking . " We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney 3 The phrase " vexing thoughts , " is , I think , very expressive . It has been familiar to me from my ...
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... means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been brought from thence of late ; he was a scholar , and an agreeable man , and lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and ...
... means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been brought from thence of late ; he was a scholar , and an agreeable man , and lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and ...
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... means of terrour and pity . For instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so exces- sively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal ...
... means of terrour and pity . For instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so exces- sively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal ...
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... means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the spirits are raised by drinking , as by the common participation of any pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting will raise the spirits of a ...
... means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the spirits are raised by drinking , as by the common participation of any pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting will raise the spirits of a ...
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... means " by stealth , " and instead of " blushing to find it fame , " acted evidently from vanity . JOHNSON . " I have seen no beings who do as much good from benevolence , as she does from whatever motive . If there are such under the ...
... means " by stealth , " and instead of " blushing to find it fame , " acted evidently from vanity . JOHNSON . " I have seen no beings who do as much good from benevolence , as she does from whatever motive . If there are such under the ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords Hugh Blair humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kindness lady Langton late learned letter liberty Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam MALONE mentioned mind never obliged observed once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travels truth Whig Wilkes wine wish word write wrote
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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.