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... admiration and enthusiasm to seize this characteristic and impart it to his work . His admiration he confesses unashamed : ' I said I worshipped him . . . I cannot help worshipping him , he is so much superior to other.
... admiration and enthusiasm to seize this characteristic and impart it to his work . His admiration he confesses unashamed : ' I said I worshipped him . . . I cannot help worshipping him , he is so much superior to other.
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... admired . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of uncom- mon powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at ...
... admired . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of uncom- mon powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at ...
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... admiration of Milton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious justice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , which was spoken by Mr. Garrick before the acting of ...
... admiration of Milton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious justice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , which was spoken by Mr. Garrick before the acting of ...
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... admiration of Johnson's powers of writing . His conversa- tion no less delighted him ; and he cultivated his acquain- tance with the laudable zeal of one who was ambitious of general improvement . Sir Joshua , indeed , was lucky enough ...
... admiration of Johnson's powers of writing . His conversa- tion no less delighted him ; and he cultivated his acquain- tance with the laudable zeal of one who was ambitious of general improvement . Sir Joshua , indeed , was lucky enough ...
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... admiration , that he came to London chiefly with the view of endeavouring to be introduced to its authour . By a fortunate chance he happened to take lodgings in a house where Mr. Levet fre- quently visited ; and having mentioned his ...
... admiration , that he came to London chiefly with the view of endeavouring to be introduced to its authour . By a fortunate chance he happened to take lodgings in a house where Mr. Levet fre- quently visited ; and having mentioned his ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards agreeable answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better bookseller BOSWELL Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink eminent entertained favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind morning never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure Poets pounds praise publick recollect Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks truth walked Whig Wilkes wine wish wonder write written wrote young
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Página 127 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 16 - When at Oxford I took up Law's 'Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry.
Página 253 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 553 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 230 - 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 64 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 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; 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...
Página 95 - I now felt myself much mortified, and began to think that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted. And, in truth, had not my ardour been uncommonly strong, and my resolution uncommonly persevering, so rough a reception might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited ; and was soon rewarded by hearing some of his conversation, of which I preserved the following short minute,...
Página 119 - ... but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Página 548 - I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Página 94 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.