JohnsonianaG. Bell & sons, 1884 - 479 pages |
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... learning , I mean not to take from the one part of his character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study : nor can I think those ...
... learning , I mean not to take from the one part of his character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study : nor can I think those ...
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Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland Robina Napier. which have most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can persuade myself to consider the river Jenisca as superior to the Nile , because the first receives near seventy ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland Robina Napier. which have most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can persuade myself to consider the river Jenisca as superior to the Nile , because the first receives near seventy ...
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... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
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... learning , and his goodness of heart : " He was the only man too ( says Mr. Johnson quite seriously ) that did justice to my good breeding ; and you may observe that I am well - bred to a degree of needless scrupulosity . No man ...
... learning , and his goodness of heart : " He was the only man too ( says Mr. Johnson quite seriously ) that did justice to my good breeding ; and you may observe that I am well - bred to a degree of needless scrupulosity . No man ...
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... learning . " That creature would ( said he ) defend his pupils to the last : no young lad under his care should suffer for committing slight improprieties , while he had breath to defend , or power to protect them . If I had had sons to ...
... learning . " That creature would ( said he ) defend his pupils to the last : no young lad under his care should suffer for committing slight improprieties , while he had breath to defend , or power to protect them . If I had had sons to ...
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Page 391 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 31 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 382 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 412 - 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...
Page 377 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 391 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 363 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Page 128 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter," he added, " could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.
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