Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's LivesH. G. Bohn, 1846 - 419 páginas |
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... means of subsistence by an offer of his pen to Cave , the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine ; but the immediate result of the application is not known ; nor in what manner he supported himself till July 1736 , when he married Elizabeth ...
... means of subsistence by an offer of his pen to Cave , the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine ; but the immediate result of the application is not known ; nor in what manner he supported himself till July 1736 , when he married Elizabeth ...
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... means of existence . Meanwhile , Lucy Porter kept the best company of our little city , but would make no engagement on market- days , lest Granny , as she called Mrs. Johnson , should catch cold by serving in the shop . There Lucy ...
... means of existence . Meanwhile , Lucy Porter kept the best company of our little city , but would make no engagement on market- days , lest Granny , as she called Mrs. Johnson , should catch cold by serving in the shop . There Lucy ...
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... mean pay , given to a state hireling , for treason to his country , raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner ; but they were removed by the arguments , or the per- suasion of Mr. Reynolds , to whom he ...
... mean pay , given to a state hireling , for treason to his country , raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner ; but they were removed by the arguments , or the per- suasion of Mr. Reynolds , to whom he ...
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... means she obtained the sum of about £ 300 . The interest of this , added to some small annual benefactions , probably hindered her from being any pecuniary burden to Johnson ; and though she was apt to be peevish and impatient , her ...
... means she obtained the sum of about £ 300 . The interest of this , added to some small annual benefactions , probably hindered her from being any pecuniary burden to Johnson ; and though she was apt to be peevish and impatient , her ...
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... mean expedients to raise his reputation . The King then talked of literary journals , mentioned particularly the " Journal des Savans , " and asked John- son if it was well done . Johnson said , it was formerly very well done , and gave ...
... mean expedients to raise his reputation . The King then talked of literary journals , mentioned particularly the " Journal des Savans , " and asked John- son if it was well done . Johnson said , it was formerly very well done , and gave ...
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Página 244 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Página 36 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 61 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 52 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 221 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Página 242 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 10 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. If it should any way lie in your way, doubt* not but you would be ready to recommend and assist your countryman....
Página 313 - O Nature, how in every charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim, To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I 'scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus...
Página 221 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod, How oft, pursuing fancies holy, My moonlight way o'er flowering weeds I wound, Inspired, beyond the guess of folly, By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound!
Página 43 - ... at the same time, on the nature and use of such works. The king asked him if it was well done now. Johnson answered, he had no reason to think that it was. The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews; and on being answered there...