The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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Pàgina viii
... manner of composing , 42. ; monu- ment , 29 .; person and dress , 56 .; personal pecu- liarities , 41. 56 .; powerful memory , 99 ; Prayers and Meditations , 34. 95 .; Pre- face to Shakspeare , 31 .; pride , 5 .; " Rambler , " 46 ...
... manner of composing , 42. ; monu- ment , 29 .; person and dress , 56 .; personal pecu- liarities , 41. 56 .; powerful memory , 99 ; Prayers and Meditations , 34. 95 .; Pre- face to Shakspeare , 31 .; pride , 5 .; " Rambler , " 46 ...
Pàgina 3
... manner ; the other is a conclusion , showing , from various causes , why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public . ” 479. Tea . Johnson's extraordinary , or rather extravagant , fond ...
... manner ; the other is a conclusion , showing , from various causes , why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public . ” 479. Tea . Johnson's extraordinary , or rather extravagant , fond ...
Pàgina 5
... manner , contradicted him , and pronounced that there were not forty good lines to be found in the whole play ; adding , " Pooh ! what stuff are these lines ! " What feminine tales hast thou been listening to , Of unair'd sheets ...
... manner , contradicted him , and pronounced that there were not forty good lines to be found in the whole play ; adding , " Pooh ! what stuff are these lines ! " What feminine tales hast thou been listening to , Of unair'd sheets ...
Pàgina 10
... manners in advanced life for her children were all grown up when Johnson first saw her had an unbecoming excess of girlish levity , and disgusting af- fectation . The rustic prettiness and artless manners of her daughter , the present ...
... manners in advanced life for her children were all grown up when Johnson first saw her had an unbecoming excess of girlish levity , and disgusting af- fectation . The rustic prettiness and artless manners of her daughter , the present ...
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... manner as would do no discredit to myself . I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto ; and if I had filled three pages , the rest would have followed . Often have I lamented my ill fortune in not building this monument ...
... manner as would do no discredit to myself . I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto ; and if I had filled three pages , the rest would have followed . Often have I lamented my ill fortune in not building this monument ...
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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?