Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poemsGeorge Dearborn, 1834 |
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... truth , a just estimate of Dr. Johnson will afford a lesson , perhaps as valuable as the moral doc- trine 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 doc- trine that speaks with energy in every page of his works . The present writer enjoyed the conversation and friendship of that excellent ...
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... truth . Johnson was never for giving you so much trouble about an imprac - known to mention such an incident in his life ; ticable thing ; but , if you think there is a proba- and Mr. Steele ( late of the Treasury ) caused bility of ...
... truth . Johnson was never for giving you so much trouble about an imprac - known to mention such an incident in his life ; ticable thing ; but , if you think there is a proba- and Mr. Steele ( late of the Treasury ) caused bility of ...
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... truth . " The whole number of Es- sion of the authors from whom Lauder professed says amounted to two hundred and eight . Ad- to make his extracts . The charge was believed , dison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , and the ...
... truth . " The whole number of Es- sion of the authors from whom Lauder professed says amounted to two hundred and eight . Ad- to make his extracts . The charge was believed , dison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , and the ...
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... truth . Mr. Nichols , whose attachment to his illustrious friend was unwearied , showed him , in 1780 , a book called " Remarks on John- son's Life of Milton , " in which the affair of Lauder was renewed with virulence , and a po ...
... truth . Mr. Nichols , whose attachment to his illustrious friend was unwearied , showed him , in 1780 , a book called " Remarks on John- son's Life of Milton , " in which the affair of Lauder was renewed with virulence , and a po ...
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... truth . It may , how- Johnson was every day at an elegant table , with ever , be placed within the bounds of probability . select and polished company . Whatever could Johnson has observed that there are different be devised by Mr. and ...
... truth . It may , how- Johnson was every day at an elegant table , with ever , be placed within the bounds of probability . select and polished company . Whatever could Johnson has observed that there are different be devised by Mr. and ...
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Page xiv - 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page xiv - 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.
Page 101 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that 'his walk was now quick, and again slow,' as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
Page 256 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 19 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety or the dignity of courage be so united with it as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 109 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Page xiv - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page vii - I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those good-natured gentlemen apprehend : especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than the llth of next month. If you see this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you will burn this and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but, if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked, I am sure your humanity, and propensity to relieve merit in distress, will incline you...
Page 101 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Page xiv - 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 the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...