The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pages |
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... lefs . Let me particularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton , and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly eftimable ...
... lefs . Let me particularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton , and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly eftimable ...
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... lefs importance to the world than that part of his perfonal character , which represents him as careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers , who feem very little acquainted ...
... lefs importance to the world than that part of his perfonal character , which represents him as careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers , who feem very little acquainted ...
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... lefs than God ; Oft on his altar fhall my firstlings lie , Their blood the confecrated ftones fhall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to tune at ease th ' unequal reeds . MELIBÆUS . My admiration only I exprest ...
... lefs than God ; Oft on his altar fhall my firstlings lie , Their blood the confecrated ftones fhall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to tune at ease th ' unequal reeds . MELIBÆUS . My admiration only I exprest ...
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... lefs diftinguifh'd lot , Glad to be hid , and proud to be forgot . EPILOGUE , intended to have been spoken by a LADY who was to perfonate the Ghost of HERMIONE . pangs YE blooming train , who give despair or joy , Blefs with a fmile ...
... lefs diftinguifh'd lot , Glad to be hid , and proud to be forgot . EPILOGUE , intended to have been spoken by a LADY who was to perfonate the Ghost of HERMIONE . pangs YE blooming train , who give despair or joy , Blefs with a fmile ...
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... lefs fkilful hands , << " To bloom a while , factitious heat demands ; " Though glowing Maro a faint warmth fupplies , " The fickly blossom in the hot - house dies : " By Johnson's genial culture , art , and toil , " Its root strikes ...
... lefs fkilful hands , << " To bloom a while , factitious heat demands ; " Though glowing Maro a faint warmth fupplies , " The fickly blossom in the hot - house dies : " By Johnson's genial culture , art , and toil , " Its root strikes ...
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Page 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 243 - One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Page 225 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 141 - 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.
Page 68 - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you...
Page 40 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 141 - 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 2 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Page 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 68 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.