The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... passed all his leisure hours at Mr. Porter's , attending his sick - bed , and , in a few months after his death , asked Mrs. John- son's consent to marry the old widow . After expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary No ...
... passed all his leisure hours at Mr. Porter's , attending his sick - bed , and , in a few months after his death , asked Mrs. John- son's consent to marry the old widow . After expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary No ...
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... passed between Dr. Johnson and myself in company , on the subject of Miss Elizabeth Aston ( 2 ) , of Stowe - hill , with whom he always passed so much time when he was in Lichfield , and for whom he professed so great a friendship ...
... passed between Dr. Johnson and myself in company , on the subject of Miss Elizabeth Aston ( 2 ) , of Stowe - hill , with whom he always passed so much time when he was in Lichfield , and for whom he professed so great a friendship ...
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... passed at Mr. Dilly's , on the 15th of April , 1778 , in a literary party , formed by Dr. John- son , Mr. Boswell , Dr. Mayo , and others , whom Mrs. Knowles and myself had been invited to meet , and in which Dr. Johnson and that lady ...
... passed at Mr. Dilly's , on the 15th of April , 1778 , in a literary party , formed by Dr. John- son , Mr. Boswell , Dr. Mayo , and others , whom Mrs. Knowles and myself had been invited to meet , and in which Dr. Johnson and that lady ...
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... passed in the mind of one of the wisest and the best of men , when he communed with his own heart , and poured forth his supplications before the throne of Heaven for mercy and for grace . - - ( 1 ) [ From the " Gentleman's Magazine ...
... passed in the mind of one of the wisest and the best of men , when he communed with his own heart , and poured forth his supplications before the throne of Heaven for mercy and for grace . - - ( 1 ) [ From the " Gentleman's Magazine ...
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... passed hours with more plea- sure than when I heard her and Dr. Johnson talk of the persons they valued , or upon subjects in which they were much interested . One night I remember Mrs. Williams was giving an account of the Wilkinsons ...
... passed hours with more plea- sure than when I heard her and Dr. Johnson talk of the persons they valued , or upon subjects in which they were much interested . One night I remember Mrs. Williams was giving an account of the Wilkinsons ...
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Página 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...
Página 145 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?