The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... 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 . " " At least , " said the lady , " they are most pleasing when they are in ...
... 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 . " " At least , " said the lady , " they are most pleasing when they are in ...
Pàgina 27
... Latin com- positions in verse . They are principally translations of collects and Greek epigrams . He was followed to the Abbey by a large troop of friends . Ten mourning Besides these , eight of his friends or admirers clubbed coaches ...
... Latin com- positions in verse . They are principally translations of collects and Greek epigrams . He was followed to the Abbey by a large troop of friends . Ten mourning Besides these , eight of his friends or admirers clubbed coaches ...
Pàgina 46
... Latin epitaph , inscribed on his monument in Streatham church . This most amiable and worthy gentleman certainly deserved every tribute of gratitude from the Doctor and his literary friends ; who were always welcome at his hospitable ...
... Latin epitaph , inscribed on his monument in Streatham church . This most amiable and worthy gentleman certainly deserved every tribute of gratitude from the Doctor and his literary friends ; who were always welcome at his hospitable ...
Pàgina 68
... Latin poem , to which he has prefixed as a title ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ , he has left a picture of himself , drawn with as much truth , and as firm a hand , as can be seen in the portraits of Hogarth or Sir Joshua Reynolds . The learned reader ...
... Latin poem , to which he has prefixed as a title ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ , he has left a picture of himself , drawn with as much truth , and as firm a hand , as can be seen in the portraits of Hogarth or Sir Joshua Reynolds . The learned reader ...
Pàgina 77
... Latin poem to modern manners , vices , and events ; and the richness and depth of thought which he exhibits when the hint is merely taken from the Roman bard , or when he chooses altogether to desert him , are such as to render this ...
... Latin poem to modern manners , vices , and events ; and the richness and depth of thought which he exhibits when the hint is merely taken from the Roman bard , or when he chooses altogether to desert him , are such as to render this ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 145 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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?