The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1824 |
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... called the king's evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch ; and accordingly Mrs. Johnson presented her son , when two years old , before Queen Anne , 1 who , for the first time , performed that ...
... called the king's evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch ; and accordingly Mrs. Johnson presented her son , when two years old , before Queen Anne , 1 who , for the first time , performed that ...
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... bathes so many times . man , " Of the river Nile , which has furnished so much controversy , we have a full and clear description . It is called by the natives , Abavi , the Father of Water . It rises in 18 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... bathes so many times . man , " Of the river Nile , which has furnished so much controversy , we have a full and clear description . It is called by the natives , Abavi , the Father of Water . It rises in 18 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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... called Guix , through which you ascend to the top of the mountain , where there is a little hill , which the idolatrous Agaci hold in great veneration . Their priest calls them together to this place once a year ; and every one ...
... called Guix , through which you ascend to the top of the mountain , where there is a little hill , which the idolatrous Agaci hold in great veneration . Their priest calls them together to this place once a year ; and every one ...
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... than a year before it was carried into execution . In the mean time , the intended retreat of Savage called to Johnson's mind the third satire of VOL . I. с Juvenal , in which that poet takes leave of a GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 33.
... than a year before it was carried into execution . In the mean time , the intended retreat of Savage called to Johnson's mind the third satire of VOL . I. с Juvenal , in which that poet takes leave of a GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 33.
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... called London . The first lines manifestly point to Savage . 66 Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel , When injured Thales bids the town farewell ; Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend ; I praise the hermit , but ...
... called London . The first lines manifestly point to Savage . 66 Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel , When injured Thales bids the town farewell ; Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend ; I praise the hermit , but ...
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Page 27 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Page 76 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 21 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 74 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 57 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 122 - 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...
Page 45 - To this discovery Dr. Francis made answer : 'Then, Sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing.' The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality; observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. 'That is not quite true,' said Johnson: 'I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took, care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the...
Page 75 - 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 4 - There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 15 And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 21 - O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine, And one capitulate, and one resign; Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gained', he cries, 'till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.