The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolatory 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 2W. Andrews and L. Blake, and Cushing and Appleton, Salem, 1807 |
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... answered , I should think it necessary to fight . " Why then , ( replied Goldsmith , ) that solves the question . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , it does not solve the question . It does not follow , that what a man would do is therefore right ...
... answered , I should think it necessary to fight . " Why then , ( replied Goldsmith , ) that solves the question . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , it does not solve the question . It does not follow , that what a man would do is therefore right ...
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... answered , " I shall die , notwithstanding what you see . " Soon afterwards , there came a shot from a French battery , to which the orders for a cessation of arms had not yet reached , and he was killed upon the spot . Col- onel Cecil ...
... answered , " I shall die , notwithstanding what you see . " Soon afterwards , there came a shot from a French battery , to which the orders for a cessation of arms had not yet reached , and he was killed upon the spot . Col- onel Cecil ...
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... answered , " A conceited fellow . Were a man to write so now , the boys would throw stones at him . " He , however , did not alter my opinion of a favourite au- thour , to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in " The Spectator ...
... answered , " A conceited fellow . Were a man to write so now , the boys would throw stones at him . " He , however , did not alter my opinion of a favourite au- thour , to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in " The Spectator ...
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... answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women ser- vants , though obliged to be at the expence of purchas- ing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants , to whom a great proportion ...
... answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women ser- vants , though obliged to be at the expence of purchas- ing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants , to whom a great proportion ...
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... " I have looked into it . " " What ( said El- phinston , ) have you not read it through ! " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading , answered tartly , " 70 THE LIFE OF.
... " I have looked into it . " " What ( said El- phinston , ) have you not read it through ! " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading , answered tartly , " 70 THE LIFE OF.
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66 DEAR SIR 66 TO JAMES acquaintance admiration affectionate afraid afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked authour believe BENNET LANGTON booksellers BOSWELL TO DR character church compliments consider conversation Court of Session dined Doctor of Medicine Dodd doubt Edinburgh edition eminent England English Erse Etat favour Garrick gentleman give glad Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON judge lady Langton language learned letter Lichfield live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets publick reason recollect remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Whig wish wonderful write written wrote
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Página 426 - 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 166 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Página 444 - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
Página 369 - tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound.
Página 442 - ... dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. ' Sir, (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.
Página 316 - Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth, is that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of buildings in London.
Página 422 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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...
Página 73 - the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill," continued ht;, " consists in making them talk like little fishes.
Página 23 - 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 437 - I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems," by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.