The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The Lives were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , he was presented with another ...
... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The Lives were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , he was presented with another ...
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... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental pas- sions , as they ...
... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental pas- sions , as they ...
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... reason of this general perusal , Addison has attempted to [ find in ] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets . " His best actions are but [ convenient ] inability of wickedness . " When once he had ...
... reason of this general perusal , Addison has attempted to [ find in ] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets . " His best actions are but [ convenient ] inability of wickedness . " When once he had ...
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... reason for this . If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shown , we should sit down in despondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' related the ...
... reason for this . If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shown , we should sit down in despondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' related the ...
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... Reason , " such as Mr. Cumberland has described , with a keen yet just and delicate pen , in his " Observer . " These minute inconveniences gave not the least disturbance to Johnson . He nobly said , when I talked to him of the feeble ...
... Reason , " such as Mr. Cumberland has described , with a keen yet just and delicate pen , in his " Observer . " These minute inconveniences gave not the least disturbance to Johnson . He nobly said , when I talked to him of the feeble ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1889 |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1884 |
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Página 306 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 9 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Página 222 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled 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 possessed.
Página 51 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 59 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humor, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.