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, Volume 1J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Col- lection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of ...
... genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Col- lection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of ...
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... Genius of Pope , Vol . I . " -- " Hampton's Translation of Polybius . " " Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in proof of a Deity . " - " Borlase's History of the Isles of Scilly . " - " Home's Experiments on Bleaching . " - " Browne's History ...
... Genius of Pope , Vol . I . " -- " Hampton's Translation of Polybius . " " Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in proof of a Deity . " - " Borlase's History of the Isles of Scilly . " - " Home's Experiments on Bleaching . " - " Browne's History ...
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... cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius scriptis sunt olim semper miraturi , whose candour and genius • Plutarch's Life of Alexander . - Langhorne's translation . will to the end of time be by his writings DR . JOHNSON . 7.
... cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius scriptis sunt olim semper miraturi , whose candour and genius • Plutarch's Life of Alexander . - Langhorne's translation . will to the end of time be by his writings DR . JOHNSON . 7.
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... genius , both in his school exer- cises and in other occasional compositions . Of these I have obtained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr. Hector , his schoolfellow and ...
... genius , both in his school exer- cises and in other occasional compositions . Of these I have obtained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr. Hector , his schoolfellow and ...
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... genius and under- standing in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience will not envy his exalted endowments . That it ...
... genius and under- standing in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience will not envy his exalted endowments . That it ...
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Página 177 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 206 - ... 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 publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...
Página 206 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 206 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 157 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Página xxxvi - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Página 196 - Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble. They rapped violently at the door of his chambers in the Temple, till at last he appeared in his shirt, with his little black wig on the top of his head instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining probably that some ruffians were coming to attack him. When he discovered who they were, and was told their errand, he smiled, and .with great good humour agreed to their proposal: "What, is it you, you dogs? I'll have...
Página 195 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Página 210 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Página 49 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.