Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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... pleased to consider , that versifying against one's inclination is the most disagreeable thing in the world ; and that one's own disappointment is no inviting subject ; and that though the desire of gratifying you might have prevailed ...
... pleased to consider , that versifying against one's inclination is the most disagreeable thing in the world ; and that one's own disappointment is no inviting subject ; and that though the desire of gratifying you might have prevailed ...
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... pleased to hear of your proceedings . I cannot but somewhat wonder that Seward should give his Living for the prospects or advantages which you can offer him , and should be glad to know your treaty more particularly . I think it not ...
... pleased to hear of your proceedings . I cannot but somewhat wonder that Seward should give his Living for the prospects or advantages which you can offer him , and should be glad to know your treaty more particularly . I think it not ...
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... pleased to inform Me where I may see you when you come to town , for not to have the satisfaction of waiting upon one for whom , on account of a long series of kindness to my Father and myself , I have so much Respect will be a great ...
... pleased to inform Me where I may see you when you come to town , for not to have the satisfaction of waiting upon one for whom , on account of a long series of kindness to my Father and myself , I have so much Respect will be a great ...
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... pleased to send me , and know not why I have delayed it so long ; but that I had nothing particular. SIR , ' First published in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. John- son , 1785 , p . 166 . James Elphinston most likely be- came ...
... pleased to send me , and know not why I have delayed it so long ; but that I had nothing particular. SIR , ' First published in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. John- son , 1785 , p . 166 . James Elphinston most likely be- came ...
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... and J.Dodsley , L. Hawes , C. Hitch , J. and P. Knapton , T. and T. Longman , and A. Millar . Be Be pleased to lay this my determination before them this Aetat . 42. ] 25 To William Strahan . Feb May Sept *35 Nov I *76 Nov 8 Nov.
... and J.Dodsley , L. Hawes , C. Hitch , J. and P. Knapton , T. and T. Longman , and A. Millar . Be Be pleased to lay this my determination before them this Aetat . 42. ] 25 To William Strahan . Feb May Sept *35 Nov I *76 Nov 8 Nov.
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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.