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Page i
... truth , a just estimate of Dr. Johnson will afford a lesson , perhaps , as valuable as the moral doctrine that speaks with energy in every page of his works . The present writer enjoyed the conversation and friendship of that excellent ...
... truth , a just estimate of Dr. Johnson will afford a lesson , perhaps , as valuable as the moral doctrine that speaks with energy in every page of his works . The present writer enjoyed the conversation and friendship of that excellent ...
Page ii
... truth . In the present case , how- ever , nothing needs to be disguised , and exaggerated praise is unnecessary . It is an observation of the younger Pliny , in his epistle to his friend Tacitus , that history ought never to mag- nify ...
... truth . In the present case , how- ever , nothing needs to be disguised , and exaggerated praise is unnecessary . It is an observation of the younger Pliny , in his epistle to his friend Tacitus , that history ought never to mag- nify ...
Page xvii
... truth , sir , Trentham , Aug. 1st . Your faithful humble servant , GOWER . This scheme miscarried . There is reason to think , that Swift declined to meddle in the business ; and , to that circumstance , Johnson's known dislike of Swift ...
... truth , sir , Trentham , Aug. 1st . Your faithful humble servant , GOWER . This scheme miscarried . There is reason to think , that Swift declined to meddle in the business ; and , to that circumstance , Johnson's known dislike of Swift ...
Page xviii
... truth . Johnson was never known to mention such an incident in his life ; and Mr. Steele , late of the treasury , caused diligent search to be made at the proper offices , and no trace of such a proceeding could be found . In the same ...
... truth . Johnson was never known to mention such an incident in his life ; and Mr. Steele , late of the treasury , caused diligent search to be made at the proper offices , and no trace of such a proceeding could be found . In the same ...
Page xxii
... truth I had from Johnson himself . ' Sir , he was impertinent to me , and I beat him . But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber . ' " " laureate , undertook to convey the manuscript to his lordship xxii AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE ...
... truth I had from Johnson himself . ' Sir , he was impertinent to me , and I beat him . But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber . ' " " laureate , undertook to convey the manuscript to his lordship xxii AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE ...
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Page 16 - Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page xxxv - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 20 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.
Page 17 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 226 - They are surely happy," said the prince, "who have all these conveniences, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Page 221 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Page 199 - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
Page 212 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once •with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Page 267 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails' as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Page 241 - He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide : I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life." " Be not too hasty," said Imlac, " to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like men.