The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Volume 61884 |
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... Garrick to him one day , " Why did not you make me a tory , when we lived so much together , you love to make people tories ? " " Why ( says Johnson , pulling a heap of halfpence from his pocket ) , did not the king make these guineas ...
... Garrick to him one day , " Why did not you make me a tory , when we lived so much together , you love to make people tories ? " " Why ( says Johnson , pulling a heap of halfpence from his pocket ) , did not the king make these guineas ...
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... Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher , he meant to represent Mr. Coulson , a mathematician ...
... Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher , he meant to represent Mr. Coulson , a mathematician ...
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... Garrick produced a passage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , Why , what a ...
... Garrick produced a passage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , Why , what a ...
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... Garrick told a better , for he said that in their young days , when some strolling players came to Litchfield , our friend had fixed his place upon the stage and got himself a chair accordingly ; which leaving for a few minutes , he ...
... Garrick told a better , for he said that in their young days , when some strolling players came to Litchfield , our friend had fixed his place upon the stage and got himself a chair accordingly ; which leaving for a few minutes , he ...
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... Garrick's were pre- ferred to them . " The hand of him here torpid lies , That drew th ' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th ' attentive eyes , That saw the manners in the face . ' Mr. Hogarth , among the variety of ...
... Garrick's were pre- ferred to them . " The hand of him here torpid lies , That drew th ' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th ' attentive eyes , That saw the manners in the face . ' Mr. Hogarth , among the variety of ...
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Page 33 - 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 30 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom sage! and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
Page 393 - 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. Seven years, my lord...
Page 27 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 393 - 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 365 - ... 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.