The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 1A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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Page i
... 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 man more than thirty years . He thought it an honour to be so ...
... 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 man more than thirty years . He thought it an honour to be so ...
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... perhaps , because it was stopped by roots , the whole place being full of trees . A line of ten feet did not reach the bot- tom of the other . These springs are supposed by the Abyssins to be the vents of a great sub- terraneous lake ...
... perhaps , because it was stopped by roots , the whole place being full of trees . A line of ten feet did not reach the bot- tom of the other . These springs are supposed by the Abyssins to be the vents of a great sub- terraneous lake ...
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... perhaps never before that day entered and by that contention both attempts were frus- the metropolis together . Their stock of money trated . Johnson had been commended by Pope was soon exhausted . In his visionary project for the ...
... perhaps never before that day entered and by that contention both attempts were frus- the metropolis together . Their stock of money trated . Johnson had been commended by Pope was soon exhausted . In his visionary project for the ...
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... perhaps , Mr. Foote . An important debate towards the an advantage to him , who wanted to make a end of Sir Robert Walpole's administration be- right use of his time , and even then beheld with ing mentioned , Dr. Francis observed ...
... perhaps , Mr. Foote . An important debate towards the an advantage to him , who wanted to make a end of Sir Robert Walpole's administration be- right use of his time , and even then beheld with ing mentioned , Dr. Francis observed ...
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... perhaps , is one of the least unamia - two hundred pounds . In 1766 , she published , ble , and most incident to a good mind . If our by subscription , a quarto volume of Miscella sensations of kindness be intense , those , whom nies ...
... perhaps , is one of the least unamia - two hundred pounds . In 1766 , she published , ble , and most incident to a good mind . If our by subscription , a quarto volume of Miscella sensations of kindness be intense , those , whom nies ...
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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.