Samuel JohnsonMacmillan, 1925 - 200 páginas |
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... hands imitat- ing the motions of a jockey riding at full speed and his feet twisting in and out to make heels and toes touch alter- nately . He presently sat down and took out a Grotius De Veritate , over which he " seesawed " so ...
... hands imitat- ing the motions of a jockey riding at full speed and his feet twisting in and out to make heels and toes touch alter- nately . He presently sat down and took out a Grotius De Veritate , over which he " seesawed " so ...
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... hand when he expected an attack from Macpherson of Ossian celebrity . Once he is said to have taken up a chair at the theatre upon which a man had seated himself during his temporary absence , and to have tossed it and its occupant ...
... hand when he expected an attack from Macpherson of Ossian celebrity . Once he is said to have taken up a chair at the theatre upon which a man had seated himself during his temporary absence , and to have tossed it and its occupant ...
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... hand . Ac- cordingly , the young scholar tried to coin his brains into money by the most depressing and least hopeful of employ- ments . By becoming an usher in a school , he could at least turn his talents to account with little delay ...
... hand . Ac- cordingly , the young scholar tried to coin his brains into money by the most depressing and least hopeful of employ- ments . By becoming an usher in a school , he could at least turn his talents to account with little delay ...
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... hand a flirtation or two , as warm as might be within the bounds of due decorum . But nothing affected his fidelity to his Tetty or displaced her image in his mind . He remembered her in many solemn prayers , and such words as " this ...
... hand a flirtation or two , as warm as might be within the bounds of due decorum . But nothing affected his fidelity to his Tetty or displaced her image in his mind . He remembered her in many solemn prayers , and such words as " this ...
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... hand , a single glance at the rough Dominie Sampson would be enough to frighten the ordinary parent off his premises . Very few pupils came , and they seem to have profited little , if a story as told of two of his pupils refers to this ...
... hand , a single glance at the rough Dominie Sampson would be enough to frighten the ordinary parent off his premises . Very few pupils came , and they seem to have profited little , if a story as told of two of his pupils refers to this ...
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acquaintance Adam Smith admirable affection appeared asked Beauclerk became biographer Boswell's Burke Burney character Club companion conversation Corsica criticism David Garrick death despised Dictionary dinner Dunciad expressed favour feeling friendship Garrick give Goldsmith Grub Street guineas happy Hawkins heart honour Horace Walpole human Hume illustrate kind labours lady Langton less letter Levett Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manners meet melancholy mind misery Miss Williams nature never night observed occasion once Oxford passage pension perhaps phrase Piozzi poem poet poetry political poor Boswell Pope praise prejudices probably Rambler Rasselas received regard remark replied Johnson Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON Satire of Juvenal Savage says Scotch seems sense sentiment Soame Jenyns Streatham style suffer talk tell tender thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies took truth utter vanity Whig Whiggism whilst Wilkes wish write
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Página 44 - 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.
Página 194 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página 101 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 45 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Página 45 - I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Página 13 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Página 195 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour...
Página 122 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 188 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral — -easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 149 - 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.