The life of Samuel Johnson, Volumen1Penguin Books, Limited, 1820 |
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... their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters a dorned with uniform panegyric , and not to be known from one another bat by extrinsic and casual circumstances . Let me remember THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 3.
... their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters a dorned with uniform panegyric , and not to be known from one another bat by extrinsic and casual circumstances . Let me remember THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 3.
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... known with certainty beforehand , whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure ...
... known with certainty beforehand , whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure ...
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... the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He 10 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He 10 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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... known at the Universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the ...
... known at the Universities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the ...
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... known , a lady hopes that the following inform- ation may not be unacceptable . " She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr. Taylor , at Ashbourn , some time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; she rather ...
... known , a lady hopes that the following inform- ation may not be unacceptable . " She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr. Taylor , at Ashbourn , some time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; she rather ...
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Página 115 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 115 - ... 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 418 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 183 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Página 84 - 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, which panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat.
Página 183 - ... approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost,
Página 398 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 27 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. 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.
Página 204 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
Página 115 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, 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.