Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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... glad of any opportunity to revive the memory of past pleasures . I therefore tear open a letter with great eagerness when I know the hand in which it is super- scribed 5. With him also he not unfrequently corresponded . Taylor docketed ...
... glad of any opportunity to revive the memory of past pleasures . I therefore tear open a letter with great eagerness when I know the hand in which it is super- scribed 5. With him also he not unfrequently corresponded . Taylor docketed ...
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... glad to know your treaty more particularly . I think it not improper to mention that there is a slight report of an intention to make Lord Chesterfield Lieutenant3 , of which , if I hear more , I will inform you farther . I propose to ...
... glad to know your treaty more particularly . I think it not improper to mention that there is a slight report of an intention to make Lord Chesterfield Lieutenant3 , of which , if I hear more , I will inform you farther . I propose to ...
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... glad to do the first opportunity . She has been very poorly for some time , and is too weak at present to bear the shock of such a thing , and I believe the very knowing of it would almost destroy her . I hope you need not be under any ...
... glad to do the first opportunity . She has been very poorly for some time , and is too weak at present to bear the shock of such a thing , and I believe the very knowing of it would almost destroy her . I hope you need not be under any ...
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... glad to see her improved in her appearance 2 , but more glad to find that she was now got above all fears of prolixity , and confident enough of success to supply whatever had been hitherto suppressed . I never indeed found a hint of ...
... glad to see her improved in her appearance 2 , but more glad to find that she was now got above all fears of prolixity , and confident enough of success to supply whatever had been hitherto suppressed . I never indeed found a hint of ...
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... glad of any opportunity to account with you , as soon as any proper thing can be thought on , or which I wil repay you in a few weeks . Your most humble servant , Received of Mr. Newbery the sum of one guinea for the use of Mr. Johnson ...
... glad of any opportunity to account with you , as soon as any proper thing can be thought on , or which I wil repay you in a few weeks . Your most humble servant , Received of Mr. Newbery the sum of one guinea for the use of Mr. Johnson ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 65 - Come unto me all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Página 44 - This stroke stunned me a good deal, and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next. He then addressed himself to Davies: 'What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams because he knows the house will be full and that an order would be worth three shillings.
Página 13 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children: he called himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind.
Página 129 - ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 298 - MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 69 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week ; sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.1 Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds ; but afterwards paid him twentyfive pounds more, when it came to a second edition.
Página 12 - Clarissa is not a. performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside for ever ; but will be occasionally consulted by the busy, the aged, and the studious...
Página 69 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Página 165 - I viewed it, passed away on either side, and loses itself in distant regions uniting waters that Nature had divided, and dividing lands which Nature had united. I might tell how these reflections fermented in my mind till the chaise stopped at Ashbourne, at Ashbourne in the Peak. Let not the barren name of the peak terrify you; I have never wanted Strawberries and cream. The great Bull has no disease but age. I hope in time to be like the great Bull ; and hope you will be like him too a hundred years...
Página 1 - I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.