Life of Samuel Johnson ...Richarson, 1823 |
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Pàgina 6
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the con- trary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the con- trary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
Pàgina 22
... never put his name to any thing . He showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good en- graved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
... never put his name to any thing . He showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good en- graved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
Pàgina 25
... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company with- out learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company with- out learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
Pàgina 29
... never wished to have a child . " Mr. Murphy mentioned Dr. Johnson's having a design to publish an edition of Cowley . John- son said , he did not know but he should ; and he expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd for having published ...
... never wished to have a child . " Mr. Murphy mentioned Dr. Johnson's having a design to publish an edition of Cowley . John- son said , he did not know but he should ; and he expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd for having published ...
Pàgina 31
... never looked at it so as to compare it with " The Lives of the Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into the fire in ...
... never looked at it so as to compare it with " The Lives of the Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into the fire in ...
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Pàgina 178 - 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 of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pàgina 177 - 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.
Pàgina 35 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pàgina 183 - 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.
Pàgina 259 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Pàgina 359 - Are these thy views? Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet, should thy soul indulge the...
Pàgina 166 - If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Pàgina 204 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Pàgina 313 - at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
Pàgina 430 - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing. " The King said in council, ' That the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do. his own...