The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volumen1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 páginas |
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... against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could fcarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many perfons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough ...
... against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could fcarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many perfons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough ...
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... against the pernicious effects of idleness , that active sports are not to be reckoned idleness in young people ; and that the liftles torpor of doing nothing , alone deferves that name . Of this dismal inertness of difpofition ...
... against the pernicious effects of idleness , that active sports are not to be reckoned idleness in young people ; and that the liftles torpor of doing nothing , alone deferves that name . Of this dismal inertness of difpofition ...
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... against religion , for I did not much think against it ; and this lafted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be fuffered . When at Oxford , I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted , ' expecting to find it a dull book ...
... against religion , for I did not much think against it ; and this lafted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be fuffered . When at Oxford , I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted , ' expecting to find it a dull book ...
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... against the College difcipline , which in his maturer years he fo much extolled . " He very early began to attempt keeping notes or memorandums , by way of a diary of his life . I find , in a parcel of loofe leaves , the following ...
... against the College difcipline , which in his maturer years he fo much extolled . " He very early began to attempt keeping notes or memorandums , by way of a diary of his life . I find , in a parcel of loofe leaves , the following ...
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... against Le Courayer's undertaking , with this difadvantage , that the French had a verfion by one of their best tranflators , whereas you cannot read three pages of the English History 4 without 1737 . without discovering that the style ...
... against Le Courayer's undertaking , with this difadvantage , that the French had a verfion by one of their best tranflators , whereas you cannot read three pages of the English History 4 without 1737 . without discovering that the style ...
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Página 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Página 243 - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Página 225 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Página 141 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 68 - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you...
Página 40 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Página 141 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 2 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Página 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 68 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.