The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... present age ; when Johnson replied , " I have known a great many ladies who knew Latin , but very few who knew En- glish . " A lady observed , that women surpassed men in epistolary correspondence . Johnson said , " I do not know that ...
... present age ; when Johnson replied , " I have known a great many ladies who knew Latin , but very few who knew En- glish . " A lady observed , that women surpassed men in epistolary correspondence . Johnson said , " I do not know that ...
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... present Mrs. Lucy Porter , had won Johnson's youthful heart , when she was upon a visit at my grandfather's in Johnson's school - days . Dis- gusted by his unsightly form , she had a personal aversion to him . Business taking Johnson to ...
... present Mrs. Lucy Porter , had won Johnson's youthful heart , when she was upon a visit at my grandfather's in Johnson's school - days . Dis- gusted by his unsightly form , she had a personal aversion to him . Business taking Johnson to ...
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... present scarcity of trees in Scotland , we are much deceived by fame if a very near ancestor of his , who was a native of that country , did not find to his cost , that a tree was not quite such a rarity in his days . ' That some ...
... present scarcity of trees in Scotland , we are much deceived by fame if a very near ancestor of his , who was a native of that country , did not find to his cost , that a tree was not quite such a rarity in his days . ' That some ...
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... present ; it would carry us too far . Suppose it granted , that , in the mind of a young girl , the weaker arguments appeared the strongest , her want of better judgment should excite thy pity , not thy resentment . " JOHNSON . " Madam ...
... present ; it would carry us too far . Suppose it granted , that , in the mind of a young girl , the weaker arguments appeared the strongest , her want of better judgment should excite thy pity , not thy resentment . " JOHNSON . " Madam ...
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... present sufferings , and fer- vently wish I had power to relieve them . A few days since I was to drink tea with him , by his request , at Mrs. Porter's . When I went into the room , he was in deep but agitated slumber , in an arm ...
... present sufferings , and fer- vently wish I had power to relieve them . A few days since I was to drink tea with him , by his request , at Mrs. Porter's . When I went into the room , he was in deep but agitated slumber , in an arm ...
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Halaman 88 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Halaman 145 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Halaman 92 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Halaman 69 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Halaman 171 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Halaman 75 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Halaman 62 - He said, that the Parliamentary Debates were the only part of his writings which then gave him any compunction: but that at the time he wrote them, he had no conception he was imposing upon the world...
Halaman 170 - ... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Halaman 77 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Halaman 90 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is?