The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... opinion , neither discovered talent nor originality . To this Dr. Johnson listened , in his usual growling manner , for some time ; when , at length , his patience being exhausted , he rose with great dignity , looked them full in the ...
... opinion , neither discovered talent nor originality . To this Dr. Johnson listened , in his usual growling manner , for some time ; when , at length , his patience being exhausted , he rose with great dignity , looked them full in the ...
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... opinion of my work , but still think there are some critics who will adhere to their old opinions , - certain persons that I could name . " " Ah ! " said Johnson , " that may be true ; for the limbs will quiver and move after the soul ...
... opinion of my work , but still think there are some critics who will adhere to their old opinions , - certain persons that I could name . " " Ah ! " said Johnson , " that may be true ; for the limbs will quiver and move after the soul ...
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... there seems no reason whatsoever to believe that any of Dr. Johnson's family were natives of Scotland . - C. have your opinion of what she was - you , ( 2 ) [ See antè , Vol . I. p . 85. She died in 1785. ] ANNA SEWARD . 11.
... there seems no reason whatsoever to believe that any of Dr. Johnson's family were natives of Scotland . - C. have your opinion of what she was - you , ( 2 ) [ See antè , Vol . I. p . 85. She died in 1785. ] ANNA SEWARD . 11.
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Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. have your opinion of what she was - you , who knew her so well in her best days . " JOHNSON . " My dear , when thy mother told thee Aston was handsome , thy mother told thee ...
Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. have your opinion of what she was - you , who knew her so well in her best days . " JOHNSON . " My dear , when thy mother told thee Aston was handsome , thy mother told thee ...
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... through his song ! ( Oct. 1787. ) 503. Reading Manuscripts . When last in Lichfield , Johnson told me that a lady in London once sent him a poem which she had written , and afterwards desired to know his opinion of c2 ANNA SEWARD . 19.
... through his song ! ( Oct. 1787. ) 503. Reading Manuscripts . When last in Lichfield , Johnson told me that a lady in London once sent him a poem which she had written , and afterwards desired to know his opinion of c2 ANNA SEWARD . 19.
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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?