The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...G. Kearsley, 1787 - 297 páginas |
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... fure I fhall perform an essential service to mankind . In respect to the use of selection , ( particu- larly as I have here applied it ) Dr. Johnson makes the best apology for me to the public , in his Idler , vol . ii . p . 185 , and ...
... fure I fhall perform an essential service to mankind . In respect to the use of selection , ( particu- larly as I have here applied it ) Dr. Johnson makes the best apology for me to the public , in his Idler , vol . ii . p . 185 , and ...
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... fure to precede fome unpleafing difplay of his early abilities ; and he ufed , when neighbours came a vifit- ing , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , fuch , as no doubt he was , a prodigy of early understanding ...
... fure to precede fome unpleafing difplay of his early abilities ; and he ufed , when neighbours came a vifit- ing , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , fuch , as no doubt he was , a prodigy of early understanding ...
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... fure ; but then Pope was a narrow man : I will however ( added he ) ftorm and blufter myself a little this time ; " - fo went to London in all the wrath he could muster up At his return I asked how the affair ended : " Why ( faid he ) I ...
... fure ; but then Pope was a narrow man : I will however ( added he ) ftorm and blufter myself a little this time ; " - fo went to London in all the wrath he could muster up At his return I asked how the affair ended : " Why ( faid he ) I ...
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... fure . " Mr. Beauclerc too related one day , how on fome oc- cafion he ordered two large maftiffs into his parlour , to fhew a friend who was converfant in canine beauty and excellence , how the dogs quarrelled , and fastening on each ...
... fure . " Mr. Beauclerc too related one day , how on fome oc- cafion he ordered two large maftiffs into his parlour , to fhew a friend who was converfant in canine beauty and excellence , how the dogs quarrelled , and fastening on each ...
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... fure , Sir ; ( returned for anfwer Dr. Johnfon . ) Well , Sir ! replies the other fomewhat mor- tified , God made it . " Certainly he did ( anfwers Mr. Johnfon again ) ; but we must always remember that he made it for Scotchmen . " Mr ...
... fure , Sir ; ( returned for anfwer Dr. Johnfon . ) Well , Sir ! replies the other fomewhat mor- tified , God made it . " Certainly he did ( anfwers Mr. Johnfon again ) ; but we must always remember that he made it for Scotchmen . " Mr ...
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Página lxx - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Página 279 - ... remote from each other, and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens and then Sicily which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre...
Página 273 - It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.
Página 196 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue.
Página 228 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 4 - THE task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them...
Página 36 - The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Página 79 - Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do, is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind.
Página 219 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Página 189 - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.