The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A Wiew of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS , BY ...
... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A Wiew of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS , BY ...
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... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the con- trary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the con- trary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
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... never happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , or when driving rapidly in a postchaise ? " JOHNSON . " No , sir , you are driving rapidly from something or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some ...
... never happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , or when driving rapidly in a postchaise ? " JOHNSON . " No , sir , you are driving rapidly from something or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some ...
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... never put his name to any thing . He showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good en- graved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
... never put his name to any thing . He showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good en- graved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
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... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company with- out learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company with- out learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
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66 DEAR SIR 66 MY DEAR acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Burke character consider conversation Court of Session death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kind lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Macartney Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter madam manner mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope postchaise praise publick racter recollect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write written wrote
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Página 178 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 177 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 358 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Página 307 - You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Página 183 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 201 - Solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day...
Página 270 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, "Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Página 64 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Página 267 - Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Página 313 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.