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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... obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ; so fairly trusting to his present powers for immediate supply , he finished by adding astonishment to the applause of all who knew how ...
... obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ; so fairly trusting to his present powers for immediate supply , he finished by adding astonishment to the applause of all who knew how ...
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... obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it : " Depend upon it , Sir ( says Johnson ) , it was sent by Junius . " The " False Alarm , " his first and favourite pamphlet , was written at our house between eight ...
... obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it : " Depend upon it , Sir ( says Johnson ) , it was sent by Junius . " The " False Alarm , " his first and favourite pamphlet , was written at our house between eight ...
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... obliged to say to - morrow what he had said yesterday ; and even Garrick , who ought to have been better acquainted with his tricks , professed himself mortified , that one time when he was extolling Dryden in a rapture that I suppose ...
... obliged to say to - morrow what he had said yesterday ; and even Garrick , who ought to have been better acquainted with his tricks , professed himself mortified , that one time when he was extolling Dryden in a rapture that I suppose ...
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... obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by saying , that he did not hate the persons he treated with roughness , or despise them whom he drove from him by apparent ...
... obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by saying , that he did not hate the persons he treated with roughness , or despise them whom he drove from him by apparent ...
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... obliged me to resign his translation of the song beginning , Busy , curious , thirsty fly , for him to give Mr. Langton , with a promise not to retain a copy . I concluded he knew why , so never enquired the reason . He had the greatest ...
... obliged me to resign his translation of the song beginning , Busy , curious , thirsty fly , for him to give Mr. Langton , with a promise not to retain a copy . I concluded he knew why , so never enquired the reason . He had the greatest ...
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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.