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, Том 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 стор. |
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... prefent of ginger- bread , and faid he was the best scholar fhe had ever had . He delighted in mentioning this early compliment ; adding , with a smile , that " this was as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive . " His next ...
... prefent of ginger- bread , and faid he was the best scholar fhe had ever had . He delighted in mentioning this early compliment ; adding , with a smile , that " this was as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive . " His next ...
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... prefent Marquis Townshend , and his brother Charles . Indeed Johnson was very fenfible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo accurate a know- ledge of Latin , in which , I believe , he was ...
... prefent Marquis Townshend , and his brother Charles . Indeed Johnson was very fenfible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo accurate a know- ledge of Latin , in which , I believe , he was ...
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... prefent , and gave me some account of what paffed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his ...
... prefent , and gave me some account of what paffed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his ...
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... prefent vene- rable master of that College , the Reverend William Adams , D. D. who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expoftulations of this worthy man , whofe virtue awed him , and whofe ...
... prefent vene- rable master of that College , the Reverend William Adams , D. D. who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expoftulations of this worthy man , whofe virtue awed him , and whofe ...
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... prefent of all his works , to be depofited in their library , and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly diffuaded him from it , and he be- queathed it to some poor ...
... prefent of all his works , to be depofited in their library , and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly diffuaded him from it , and he be- queathed it to some poor ...
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Сторінка 296 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Сторінка 142 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Сторінка 239 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 142 - 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 252 - I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " 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.
Сторінка 1 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Сторінка 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.