The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 páginas |
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... dined , ' said he , ' very well for eightpence , with very good company , at the Pine Apple , in New Street , just by . Several of them had travelled . They expected to meet every day , but did not know one another's names . It used to ...
... dined , ' said he , ' very well for eightpence , with very good company , at the Pine Apple , in New Street , just by . Several of them had travelled . They expected to meet every day , but did not know one another's names . It used to ...
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... dined every Sunday . There was a talk of his going to Ice- land with him , which would probably have happened had he lived . There was also Mr. Cave , Dr. Hawkesworth , Mr. Ryland , merchant on Tower Hill ; Mrs. Masters the poetess ...
... dined every Sunday . There was a talk of his going to Ice- land with him , which would probably have happened had he lived . There was also Mr. Cave , Dr. Hawkesworth , Mr. Ryland , merchant on Tower Hill ; Mrs. Masters the poetess ...
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... dined and drank tea with him , and was introduced to the acquaint- ance of Mrs. Williams . After dinner , Mr. John- son proposed to Mr. Burney to go up with him into his garret ; which being accepted , he there found about five or six ...
... dined and drank tea with him , and was introduced to the acquaint- ance of Mrs. Williams . After dinner , Mr. John- son proposed to Mr. Burney to go up with him into his garret ; which being accepted , he there found about five or six ...
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... dined with him at his house . Sir John Hawkins , indeed , gives full vent to his own prejudice in abusing Blackfriars Bridge , calling it an edifice in which beauty and symmetry are in vain sought for ; by which the citizens of London ...
... dined with him at his house . Sir John Hawkins , indeed , gives full vent to his own prejudice in abusing Blackfriars Bridge , calling it an edifice in which beauty and symmetry are in vain sought for ; by which the citizens of London ...
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... dined , you would choose rather to dine with the first man for genius ; but to gain most respect , you should dine with the first duke in England . For nine people in ten that you meet with , would have a higher opinion of you for ...
... dined , you would choose rather to dine with the first man for genius ; but to gain most respect , you should dine with the first duke in England . For nine people in ten that you meet with , would have a higher opinion of you for ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams 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'.