The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... . Had the ancients been serious in their belief , we should not have had their Gods ex- hibited in the manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . Etat . 67. ] 9 DR . JOHNSON . #
... . Had the ancients been serious in their belief , we should not have had their Gods ex- hibited in the manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . Etat . 67. ] 9 DR . JOHNSON . #
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... Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They Accordingly you see in argues only negatively , who has something posi- disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them ...
... Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They Accordingly you see in argues only negatively , who has something posi- disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them ...
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... Poets , by Mr. Cibber " was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotchman , one of his amanuenses . " The 5 5 In the Monthly Review for May , 1792 , there is such a correc- tion of the above passage , as I should think myself very ...
... Poets , by Mr. Cibber " was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotchman , one of his amanuenses . " The 5 5 In the Monthly Review for May , 1792 , there is such a correc- tion of the above passage , as I should think myself very ...
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... Poets , compiled by Messrs . Cibber and Shiels , from a sincere regard to that sacred principle of Truth , to which Dr. Johnson so rigidly adhered , accord- ing to the best of his knowledge and which , we believe , no consi- deration ...
... Poets , compiled by Messrs . Cibber and Shiels , from a sincere regard to that sacred principle of Truth , to which Dr. Johnson so rigidly adhered , accord- ing to the best of his knowledge and which , we believe , no consi- deration ...
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... Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . What became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into the fire in that impetuous combustion of papers , which Johnson I think ...
... Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . What became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into the fire in that impetuous combustion of papers , which Johnson I think ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords Hugh Blair humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kindness lady Langton late learned letter liberty Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam MALONE mentioned mind never obliged observed once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travels truth Whig Wilkes wine wish word write wrote
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Página 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Página 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Página 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Página 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Página 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Página 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Página 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Página 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.