Samuel JohnsonMacmillan, 1925 - 200 páginas |
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... political partisans to absorb all the comfortable sinecures to be had ; and such money as was still spent upon literature , was , given in return for services equally degrading to giver and receiver . Nor did the patronage of literature ...
... political partisans to absorb all the comfortable sinecures to be had ; and such money as was still spent upon literature , was , given in return for services equally degrading to giver and receiver . Nor did the patronage of literature ...
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... political scribblers - the Arnalls , Gordons , Trench- ards , Guthries , Ralphs , and Amhersts , whose names meet us in the notes to the Dunciad and in contemporary pamphlets and newspapers - form another variety of the class . Their ...
... political scribblers - the Arnalls , Gordons , Trench- ards , Guthries , Ralphs , and Amhersts , whose names meet us in the notes to the Dunciad and in contemporary pamphlets and newspapers - form another variety of the class . Their ...
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... Political State of Great Britain began in 1711. The Historical Regis- ter , which added to a chronicle some literary notices , was started in 1716. The Grub Street Journal was another journal with fuller critical notices , which first ...
... Political State of Great Britain began in 1711. The Historical Regis- ter , which added to a chronicle some literary notices , was started in 1716. The Grub Street Journal was another journal with fuller critical notices , which first ...
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... politics , and from politics to obscenity . " We may , how- ever , guess what was the special charm of the intercourse to Johnson . Savage was an expert in that science of human nature , learnt from experience not from books , upon ...
... politics , and from politics to obscenity . " We may , how- ever , guess what was the special charm of the intercourse to Johnson . Savage was an expert in that science of human nature , learnt from experience not from books , upon ...
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... politics illustrate Johnson's sympathy with the inhabitants of the contemporary Cave of Adullam . 66 This poem , as already stated , attracted Pope's notice , who made a curious note on a scrap of paper sent with it to a friend ...
... politics illustrate Johnson's sympathy with the inhabitants of the contemporary Cave of Adullam . 66 This poem , as already stated , attracted Pope's notice , who made a curious note on a scrap of paper sent with it to a friend ...
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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.