The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... character , did much honour to the judg- ment and liberal spirit of that learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.3 1 Dr. Thomas ...
... character , did much honour to the judg- ment and liberal spirit of that learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.3 1 Dr. Thomas ...
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... character of a plain independent English squire . As this family will frequently be mentioned in the course of the following pages , and as a false notion has prevailed that Mr. Thrale was inferior , and in some degree insignificant ...
... character of a plain independent English squire . As this family will frequently be mentioned in the course of the following pages , and as a false notion has prevailed that Mr. Thrale was inferior , and in some degree insignificant ...
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... character : " How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course , which no loud storms annoy ...
... character : " How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course , which no loud storms annoy ...
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... character and modes of thinking . TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ.1 At Langton , near Spilsby , Lincolnshire . " DEAR SIR , " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , March 9 , 1766 . " What your friends have done , that from your departure till now ...
... character and modes of thinking . TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ.1 At Langton , near Spilsby , Lincolnshire . " DEAR SIR , " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , March 9 , 1766 . " What your friends have done , that from your departure till now ...
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... character is vindicated , and the very unfavour able representation of it , given by Sir John Hawkins in his Life of John- son , pp . 222 , 232 , is minutely examined . — Malone . 5 Edward Lye was born in 1704. He published the ...
... character is vindicated , and the very unfavour able representation of it , given by Sir John Hawkins in his Life of John- son , pp . 222 , 232 , is minutely examined . — Malone . 5 Edward Lye was born in 1704. He published the ...
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Página 314 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Página 24 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and...