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... letters from and to Miss Hill Boothby , showing Johnson in a sad and pathetic light , as the shades of life's evening were drawing round him . letters are especially valued from having been collected an arranged by Johnson himself ...
... letters from and to Miss Hill Boothby , showing Johnson in a sad and pathetic light , as the shades of life's evening were drawing round him . letters are especially valued from having been collected an arranged by Johnson himself ...
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... letter signed Sunday , was written by Miss Talbot ; and he fancied the billets in the first volume of the " Rambler , " were sent him by Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone . The papers contributed by Mrs. Carter , had much of his esteem ...
... letter signed Sunday , was written by Miss Talbot ; and he fancied the billets in the first volume of the " Rambler , " were sent him by Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone . The papers contributed by Mrs. Carter , had much of his esteem ...
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... letter written by him to Mr. Barnard the King's librarian , when he was in Italy collecting books , contained some very particular advice to his friend to be on his guard against the seductions of the church of Rome . The settled ...
... letter written by him to Mr. Barnard the King's librarian , when he was in Italy collecting books , contained some very particular advice to his friend to be on his guard against the seductions of the church of Rome . The settled ...
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... letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again , if possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again very kindly , and from that time his visits grew more frequent , till in the ...
... letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again , if possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again very kindly , and from that time his visits grew more frequent , till in the ...
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... letter , written in some of the common prints of the day , fastened on his heart , and threw him into the slow fever of which he died . Nor was Cummyns the only valuable member so lost to society ; Hawkesworth , the pious , the virtuous ...
... letter , written in some of the common prints of the day , fastened on his heart , and threw him into the slow fever of which he died . Nor was Cummyns the only valuable member so lost to society ; Hawkesworth , the pious , the virtuous ...
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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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