Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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... Horace Walpole's Letters , and with pencil in hand and some little hope still in heart , managed to get a few notes taken . Three winters I had to spend on the shores of the Mediterranean . During two of them my malady and my distress ...
... Horace Walpole's Letters , and with pencil in hand and some little hope still in heart , managed to get a few notes taken . Three winters I had to spend on the shores of the Mediterranean . During two of them my malady and my distress ...
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... Horace Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , ' though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have ...
... Horace Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , ' though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have ...
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... Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters , vi . 211 . " I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography , which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his ...
... Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters , vi . 211 . " I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography , which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his ...
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... Horace Walpole , writing of the year 1770 , about libels , says : ' Their excess was shocking , and in nothing more condemnable than in the dangers they brought on the liberty of the press . ' This evil was chiefly due to ' the spirit ...
... Horace Walpole , writing of the year 1770 , about libels , says : ' Their excess was shocking , and in nothing more condemnable than in the dangers they brought on the liberty of the press . ' This evil was chiefly due to ' the spirit ...
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... Horace Walpole ( Letters , i . 92 ) calls Whitehead ' an infamous , but not despicable poet . ' Johnson , Aetat . 29. ] Paul Whitehead . 145 Johnson ,
... Horace Walpole ( Letters , i . 92 ) calls Whitehead ' an infamous , but not despicable poet . ' Johnson , Aetat . 29. ] Paul Whitehead . 145 Johnson ,
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Página 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Página 304 - 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 304 - 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Página 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Página 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Página 460 - I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.