The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 1A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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... live in peace with mankind , and in a temper to do good offices , was the most essential part of our duty . That no- tion of moral goodness gave umbrage to Sir John Hawkins , and drew down upon the memory of his friend the bitterest ...
... live in peace with mankind , and in a temper to do good offices , was the most essential part of our duty . That no- tion of moral goodness gave umbrage to Sir John Hawkins , and drew down upon the memory of his friend the bitterest ...
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... lives . A form to rugged stone when Phidias gives , Remove his marble , and his genius dies ; With nature , then , no ... live in every age and every clime , Record the Chiefs , who propt their Country's cause ; Who founded Empires , and ...
... lives . A form to rugged stone when Phidias gives , Remove his marble , and his genius dies ; With nature , then , no ... live in every age and every clime , Record the Chiefs , who propt their Country's cause ; Who founded Empires , and ...
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... Lives of the Poets . The first publication was in 1779 , and the whole was completed in 1781. In a memo- randum of that year he says , some time in March he finished the Lives of the Poets , which he wrote in his usual way , dilatorily ...
... Lives of the Poets . The first publication was in 1779 , and the whole was completed in 1781. In a memo- randum of that year he says , some time in March he finished the Lives of the Poets , which he wrote in his usual way , dilatorily ...
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... Lives of the Poets , a work undertaken at the age of seventy , yet the most brilliant , and certainly the most popular , of all our Author's writings . For this perform- ance he needed little preparation . Attentive always to the ...
... Lives of the Poets , a work undertaken at the age of seventy , yet the most brilliant , and certainly the most popular , of all our Author's writings . For this perform- ance he needed little preparation . Attentive always to the ...
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... live , in consequence of having given too great proofs of a predominant genius , in the solitude of a hermit , with the anxiety of a miser , and the caution of an outlaw ; afraid to show my face lest it should be copied ; afraid to ...
... live , in consequence of having given too great proofs of a predominant genius , in the solitude of a hermit , with the anxiety of a miser , and the caution of an outlaw ; afraid to show my face lest it should be copied ; afraid to ...
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Page xv - 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 xv - 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 215 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page xxiii - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page iv - He appears by bis 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 rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 103 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Page 110 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Page xv - 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 110 - In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. 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 78 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.