Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volumen1George Birkbeck Norman Hill At the Clarendon Press, 1897 - 517 páginas |
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... morning , on my visiting him by desire at an early hour , he put these Papers into my hands , with instructions for com- mitting them to the Press , and with a promise to prepare a sketch of his own life to accompany them . But the ...
... morning , on my visiting him by desire at an early hour , he put these Papers into my hands , with instructions for com- mitting them to the Press , and with a promise to prepare a sketch of his own life to accompany them . But the ...
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... morning and made up for lost time . desidiae valedixi ' ; and on July 17 : - ' Desidiae tandem ' valedixi . ' Lock- But hart's Scott , ed . 1839 , viii . 275 , 382 . " Leisure and I , " said Wesley , " have taken leave of one another ...
... morning and made up for lost time . desidiae valedixi ' ; and on July 17 : - ' Desidiae tandem ' valedixi . ' Lock- But hart's Scott , ed . 1839 , viii . 275 , 382 . " Leisure and I , " said Wesley , " have taken leave of one another ...
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... morning . To - night I began the Sept. 7 , 17363. I have this day entered upon my 28th year . Mayest thou , O God , enable me for Jesus Christ's sake may be very remote . I now therefore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile ...
... morning . To - night I began the Sept. 7 , 17363. I have this day entered upon my 28th year . Mayest thou , O God , enable me for Jesus Christ's sake may be very remote . I now therefore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile ...
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... morning . Almighty God , by whose will I was created , and by whose Providence I have been sustained , by whose mercy I have been called to the knowledge of my Redeemer , and by whose Grace whatever I have thought or acted acceptable to ...
... morning . Almighty God , by whose will I was created , and by whose Providence I have been sustained , by whose mercy I have been called to the knowledge of my Redeemer , and by whose Grace whatever I have thought or acted acceptable to ...
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... Morning . O God , who on this day wert pleased to take from me my dear Wife , sanctify to me my sorrows and reflections . Grant , that I may renew and practise the resolutions which I made when thy afflicting hand was upon me . Let the ...
... Morning . O God , who on this day wert pleased to take from me my dear Wife , sanctify to me my sorrows and reflections . Grant , that I may renew and practise the resolutions which I made when thy afflicting hand was upon me . Let the ...
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Página 192 - Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf. Whose howl 's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 445 - For many years, when he was not disposed to enter into the conversation going forward, whoever sat near his chair, might hear him repeating, from Shakspeare, Ay, but to die and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods 5
Página 202 - and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she join'd the former two. One evening in the oratorio
Página 261 - eating with uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 424 - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' Pensioner. ' One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another; a dependant.
Página 300 - If there be any of you who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience herein, but requireth further comfort or counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned Minister of God's Word, and open his grief.
Página 320 - 1 did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.
Página 314 - has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of his delirious extasies by reading human sentiments in human language ; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 199 - these verses to imitate such a one, naming him : Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom, sage! and tell What is bliss, and which the way? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer
Página 398 - on this part of my work with pleasure, which no [blame or praise of] man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. 1 The