The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 páginas |
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... tion - BOSWELL . ' There are many invisible circumstances . which , whether we read as inquirers after na- tural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more important than public ...
... tion - BOSWELL . ' There are many invisible circumstances . which , whether we read as inquirers after na- tural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more important than public ...
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... tion ; but if a man tells me that he sees this , and in consternation calls me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . ' It is a common effect of low spirits or melan- choly , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that ...
... tion ; but if a man tells me that he sees this , and in consternation calls me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . ' It is a common effect of low spirits or melan- choly , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that ...
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... tion to the management of his domester con- cerns , left a very large family in indigene One of his daughters , Mrs. Desmonline de wards found an asylum in the house of r friend , whose doors were always open s unfortunate , and who ...
... tion to the management of his domester con- cerns , left a very large family in indigene One of his daughters , Mrs. Desmonline de wards found an asylum in the house of r friend , whose doors were always open s unfortunate , and who ...
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... tion . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes , his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants . " The reader will here find no ...
... tion . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes , his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants . " The reader will here find no ...
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... tion as the master of an academy that of the usher of a school ; we der , therefore , that he did not keep above a year and a half . From r account , he did not appear to ha foundly reverenced by his pupils of manner and uncouth gestici ...
... tion as the master of an academy that of the usher of a school ; we der , therefore , that he did not keep above a year and a half . From r account , he did not appear to ha foundly reverenced by his pupils of manner and uncouth gestici ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams wish write written wrote
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Página 72 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Página 72 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Página 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 72 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Página 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Página 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Página 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Página 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.