The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: 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. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 páginas |
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... best in the embarraffed state of affairs at that time ; and the fact was , that upon a fair computation of the value of land and money at the time , applied to the estate and the burthens upon it , there was nothing given to the heir ...
... best in the embarraffed state of affairs at that time ; and the fact was , that upon a fair computation of the value of land and money at the time , applied to the estate and the burthens upon it , there was nothing given to the heir ...
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... best ftate for man in general ; and every man is a worse man , in proportion as he is unfit for the married state . " 3 I have 1776 . Etat . 67 . 1776 . I have always loved the fimplicity of manners THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 31.
... best ftate for man in general ; and every man is a worse man , in proportion as he is unfit for the married state . " 3 I have 1776 . Etat . 67 . 1776 . I have always loved the fimplicity of manners THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 31.
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... best advantage . I wish that Johnfon had been with us ; for it was a scene which I should have been glad to contemplate by his light . The vastness and the contrivance of fome of the machinery would have " matched his mighty mind . " I ...
... best advantage . I wish that Johnfon had been with us ; for it was a scene which I should have been glad to contemplate by his light . The vastness and the contrivance of fome of the machinery would have " matched his mighty mind . " I ...
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... best for a great nation . The characteristick of our own government at present is imbecillity . The magiftrate dare not call the guards for fear of K 2 being 1776 . Ætat . 67 . being hanged . The THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 67 On the ...
... best for a great nation . The characteristick of our own government at present is imbecillity . The magiftrate dare not call the guards for fear of K 2 being 1776 . Ætat . 67 . being hanged . The THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 67 On the ...
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... best company , and learnt all that can be got by the ear . He abused Pindar to me , and then fhewed me an Ode of his own , with an abfurd couplet , making a linnet foar on an eagle's wing . I told him that when the ancients made a ...
... best company , and learnt all that can be got by the ear . He abused Pindar to me , and then fhewed me an Ode of his own , with an abfurd couplet , making a linnet foar on an eagle's wing . I told him that when the ancients made a ...
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Página 158 - 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 350 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Página 155 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 504 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 384 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 150 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Página 316 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Página 233 - 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 581 - So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Página 581 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality ; both from a regard for the order of society and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended...