The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 páginas |
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... able to bear contradiction than the latter , who are apt to fly out upon any opposition , and to regard one as a mercenary , designing fellow , if he argues with any coolness and impartiality , or makes any concessions to their ...
... able to bear contradiction than the latter , who are apt to fly out upon any opposition , and to regard one as a mercenary , designing fellow , if he argues with any coolness and impartiality , or makes any concessions to their ...
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... able to preserve his conversation in an authentic and lively manner , which opinion the public has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores . In one respect this Work ...
... able to preserve his conversation in an authentic and lively manner , which opinion the public has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores . In one respect this Work ...
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... able particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original ...
... able particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original ...
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... able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and con- temptible , then , are all the remarks which have been made to the prejudice either of his candour or of his philosophy , founded upon a supposition that he was almost blind ! It ...
... able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and con- temptible , then , are all the remarks which have been made to the prejudice either of his candour or of his philosophy , founded upon a supposition that he was almost blind ! It ...
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... able judge of what was right . At this school he did not receive so much benefit as was expected . It has been said that he acted in the capacity of an assistant to Mr. Went- worth in teaching the younger boys . ' Mr. Wentworth , ' he ...
... able judge of what was right . At this school he did not receive so much benefit as was expected . It has been said that he acted in the capacity of an assistant to Mr. Went- worth in teaching the younger boys . ' Mr. Wentworth , ' he ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration affectionate afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON booksellers character Church consider conversation dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language late learned letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Bute Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet praise published racter Rambler recollect remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Warton Williams wine wish write written wrote
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Página 72 - 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 72 - 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 the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Página 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 72 - 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 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Página 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Página 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Página 72 - 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 the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Página 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.