The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volumen11831 |
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... pleased to take a great interest in it , and kindly endeavoured to explain the obscurities which were stated to him ; but he confessed , at the same time , that the applica- tion had in some instances come rather too late , and ...
... pleased to take a great interest in it , and kindly endeavoured to explain the obscurities which were stated to him ; but he confessed , at the same time , that the applica- tion had in some instances come rather too late , and ...
Página xxix
... pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however , the dispenser of fame , has judged differently , and considers the biographer of Johnson as the most eminent branch of the family ...
... pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however , the dispenser of fame , has judged differently , and considers the biographer of Johnson as the most eminent branch of the family ...
Página xxx
... pleased to approve of this proposal , your signifying your con- currence underneath , upon two duplicates , one of which shall be kept by each of us , will be a sufficient voucher of the obligation . I ever am , with very sin- cere ...
... pleased to approve of this proposal , your signifying your con- currence underneath , upon two duplicates , one of which shall be kept by each of us , will be a sufficient voucher of the obligation . I ever am , with very sin- cere ...
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... pleased to welcome me , for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deûm , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
... pleased to welcome me , for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deûm , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
Página xxxvii
... pleased to favour me with communi- cations and advice in the conduct of my work . I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manu ...
... pleased to favour me with communi- cations and advice in the conduct of my work . I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manu ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 246 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 470 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página xxviii - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Página 424 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Página 246 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Página 375 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Página 105 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
Página 166 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Página 116 - Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power or hapless love ; Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep, undisturb'd, within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Página 398 - Scotland«, which I used in the sense of being of that country: and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it; retorted, »That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help«.