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... Death of James V. in drawing up which , his Lordship has been engaged for some time . His Lordship writes to me thus : If I could procure Dr. Johnson's criticisms , they would be of great use to me in the prosecution of my work , as ...
... Death of James V. in drawing up which , his Lordship has been engaged for some time . His Lordship writes to me thus : If I could procure Dr. Johnson's criticisms , they would be of great use to me in the prosecution of my work , as ...
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... death became one of the proprietors of it ; and now resides in Mr. Thrale's house in Southwark , which was the scene of so many literary meetings , and in which he continues the liberal hospitality for which it was eminent . Dr. Johnson ...
... death became one of the proprietors of it ; and now resides in Mr. Thrale's house in Southwark , which was the scene of so many literary meetings , and in which he continues the liberal hospitality for which it was eminent . Dr. Johnson ...
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... death , or rather , " of something after death ; " and what rational man , who seriously thinks of quitting all that he has ever known , and going into a new and unknown state of being , can be without that dread ? But his fear was from ...
... death , or rather , " of something after death ; " and what rational man , who seriously thinks of quitting all that he has ever known , and going into a new and unknown state of being , can be without that dread ? But his fear was from ...
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... death , a contempt for the notion that the weather affects the human frame . I told him that our friend Goldsmith had said to me that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the ...
... death , a contempt for the notion that the weather affects the human frame . I told him that our friend Goldsmith had said to me that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the ...
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... death - bed . J. B.-O. ] 2 [ The first time he dined with me , he was shewn into my book room , and instantly pored over the lettering of each volume within his reach . My collection of books is very miscellaneous , and I feared there ...
... death - bed . J. B.-O. ] 2 [ The first time he dined with me , he was shewn into my book room , and instantly pored over the lettering of each volume within his reach . My collection of books is very miscellaneous , and I feared there ...
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Página 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 68 - I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 264 - Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Página 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 258 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — ' BOSWELL. 'Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you.' JOHNSON. 'What do you mean, sir ? What do you take me for ? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table ?
Página 276 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Página 290 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 69 - I wrote for some months in The Universal Visitor, for poor Smart, while he was mad, not then knowing the terms on which he was engaged to write, and thinking I was doing him good. I hoped his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to me, and I wrote in The Universal Visitor no longer.
Página 349 - The horror of death, which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson, appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, " he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Página 173 - ... tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude: when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.