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... pleased to take a great interest in it , and kindly endeavoured to explain the obscurities which were stated to him ; but he confessed , at the same time , that the applica- tion had in some instances come rather too late , and ...
... pleased to take a great interest in it , and kindly endeavoured to explain the obscurities which were stated to him ; but he confessed , at the same time , that the applica- tion had in some instances come rather too late , and ...
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... pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however , the dispenser of fame , has judged differently , and considers the biographer of Johnson as the most eminent branch of the family ...
... pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however , the dispenser of fame , has judged differently , and considers the biographer of Johnson as the most eminent branch of the family ...
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... pleased to approve of this proposal , your signifying your con- currence underneath , upon two duplicates , one of which shall be kept by each of us , will be a sufficient voucher of the obligation . I ever am , with very sin- cere ...
... pleased to approve of this proposal , your signifying your con- currence underneath , upon two duplicates , one of which shall be kept by each of us , will be a sufficient voucher of the obligation . I ever am , with very sin- cere ...
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... pleased to welcome me , -for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deûm , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
... pleased to welcome me , -for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deûm , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
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... pleased to favour me with communi- cations and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manu ...
... pleased to favour me with communi- cations and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manu ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 250 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Página 250 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Página 280 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Página 253 - 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 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Página 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
Página 38 - 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 inquiry'.
Página 298 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
Página 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?