Samuel Johnson, Volumen20Harper, 1901 - 195 páginas |
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acquaintance Adam Smith admirable affection afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk became biographer Boswell's Burke character Cloth Club companion conversation Corsica criticism David Garrick death Dictionary dinner Edges and Gilt expressed favour feeling friendship Garrick GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Gilt Top give Goldsmith Grub Street guineas happy Hawkins heart honour Horace Walpole human illustrate kind labours lady Langton less letter Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner melancholy mind misery Miss Williams nature never observed occasion once Oxford perhaps phrase Piozzi poem poet poetry political poor Boswell Pope praise prejudices probably Rambler Rasselas received regard remark replied Johnson Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage says Scotch seems sense sentiment Soame Jenyns Streatham suffer talk tell tender thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies took truth Uncut Edges utter vanity Whig Whiggism whilst Wilkes wish write
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Página 44 - 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.
Página 45 - 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 194 - Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Página 179 - He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place.
Página 13 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Página 195 - 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...
Página 122 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 143 - I desired all to withdraw, then told her that we were to part for ever ; that as Christians, we should part with prayer; and that I would, if she was willing, say a short prayer beside her.
Página 36 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Página 112 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.