Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the HebridesJ. Murray, 1860 - 874 páginas |
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... give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but which give excellence to biography ...
... give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but which give excellence to biography ...
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... give the generous pain , the worthless joy : With his own form acquaint the forward fool , Shown in the faithful glass of ridicule ; Teach mimic censure her own faults to find , No more let coquettes to themselves be blind , So shall ...
... give the generous pain , the worthless joy : With his own form acquaint the forward fool , Shown in the faithful glass of ridicule ; Teach mimic censure her own faults to find , No more let coquettes to themselves be blind , So shall ...
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... give you a bad reception , if , beside the current wit of the month , which a critical examination would generally reduce to a narrow compass , you admitted not only poems , inscriptions , & c . never printed before , which he will ...
... give you a bad reception , if , beside the current wit of the month , which a critical examination would generally reduce to a narrow compass , you admitted not only poems , inscriptions , & c . never printed before , which he will ...
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... give you will give quickly . " You need not be in care about something to print , for I have got the State Trials , and shall ex- tract Layer , Atterbury , and Macclesfield from them , and shall bring them to you in a fortnight ; after ...
... give you will give quickly . " You need not be in care about something to print , for I have got the State Trials , and shall ex- tract Layer , Atterbury , and Macclesfield from them , and shall bring them to you in a fortnight ; after ...
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... give me directions how to pay it , and not to mention it to my dear mother . If it be necessary to pay this in less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much ...
... give me directions how to pay it , and not to mention it to my dear mother . If it be necessary to pay this in less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much ...
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Página 80 - 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.
Página 80 - 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...
Página 354 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 80 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 53 - Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. 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...
Página 142 - 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 fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Página 180 - True, (answered the Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear." To obviate all the reflections which have gone round the world to Johnson's prejudice, by applying to him the epithet of a bear, let me impress upon my readers a just and happy saying of my friend Goldsmith, who knew him well : " Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner : but no man alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.
Página 195 - Nature's signal for retreat," from this state of being to " a happier seat," his thoughts upon this awful change were in general full of dismal apprehensions. His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Coliseum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives them back into their dens ; but not killing them, they were...
Página 159 - Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Página 194 - Why, sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You see, sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.