The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... lady who had an asylum in his house . Of these , there are his " Epitaph on Phillips ; * " " Translation of a Latin Epitaph on Sir Thomas Han- mer ; + " " Friendship , an ode ; * " and , " The Ant , * " a paraphrase from the Proverbs ...
... lady who had an asylum in his house . Of these , there are his " Epitaph on Phillips ; * " " Translation of a Latin Epitaph on Sir Thomas Han- mer ; + " " Friendship , an ode ; * " and , " The Ant , * " a paraphrase from the Proverbs ...
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... lady having 8 See an account of him in the European Magazine , Jan. 1786 . 9 [ The Honourable Thomas Hervey , whose letter to Sir Thomas unhappily disagreed , and being about to separate , John- 32 [ 1767 . THE LIFE OF Mr. Cuthbert Shaw ...
... lady having 8 See an account of him in the European Magazine , Jan. 1786 . 9 [ The Honourable Thomas Hervey , whose letter to Sir Thomas unhappily disagreed , and being about to separate , John- 32 [ 1767 . THE LIFE OF Mr. Cuthbert Shaw ...
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... lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . [ In his letter to Mr. Drummond , dated Oct. 24 , 1767 , he men- tions that he had arrived in London , after an absence , of nearly six months , in the country . Probably part of that time was ...
... lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . [ In his letter to Mr. Drummond , dated Oct. 24 , 1767 , he men- tions that he had arrived in London , after an absence , of nearly six months , in the country . Probably part of that time was ...
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... lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney , has favoured me with the following solution : " Now for the explication of this seeming mystery , which is so very obvious as , for that reason , to have escaped the penetration of ...
... lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney , has favoured me with the following solution : " Now for the explication of this seeming mystery , which is so very obvious as , for that reason , to have escaped the penetration of ...
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... chastity . " A gentleman talked to him of a lady whom he great- ly admired and wished to marry , but was afraid of her superiority of talents . " Sir , ( said he 52 [ 1768 THE LIFE OF (said he) as one reads such a book...
... chastity . " A gentleman talked to him of a lady whom he great- ly admired and wished to marry , but was afraid of her superiority of talents . " Sir , ( said he 52 [ 1768 THE LIFE OF (said he) as one reads such a book...
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Página 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Página 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Página 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Página 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Página 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Página 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Página 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.