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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Page viii
... Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life . " Opportunities for observation must have ...
... Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life . " Opportunities for observation must have ...
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... REYNOLDS SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S CHARACTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S INFLUENCE AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. , BY ARTHUR MURPHY • LETTERS FROM BOSWELL TO SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
... REYNOLDS SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S CHARACTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S INFLUENCE AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. , BY ARTHUR MURPHY • LETTERS FROM BOSWELL TO SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds's parlour , while the boy waited to carry it to press and numberless are the instances of his writing under immediate pressure of importunity or distress . He told me that the character of Sober in the " Idler ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds's parlour , while the boy waited to carry it to press and numberless are the instances of his writing under immediate pressure of importunity or distress . He told me that the character of Sober in the " Idler ...
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... Sir , what and where is Palmira ? I heard somebody talk last night of the ruins of Palmira . " " " Tis a hill in ... Joshua Reynolds mentioned some picture as excellent . “ It has often grieved me , Sir ( said Mr. Johnson ) , to see so ...
... Sir , what and where is Palmira ? I heard somebody talk last night of the ruins of Palmira . " " " Tis a hill in ... Joshua Reynolds mentioned some picture as excellent . “ It has often grieved me , Sir ( said Mr. Johnson ) , to see so ...
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... Sir Robert Chambers , Mr. Dyer , and Sir Joshua Reynolds , whom he called their Romulus , or said somebody else of the company called him so , which was more likely but this was , I believe , in the year 1775 or 1776 . It was a supper ...
... Sir Robert Chambers , Mr. Dyer , and Sir Joshua Reynolds , whom he called their Romulus , or said somebody else of the company called him so , which was more likely but this was , I believe , in the year 1775 or 1776 . It was a supper ...
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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.