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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... expression , as if he had made the arguments of his opponent fly like chaff before the wind . I am fully aware how very obvious an occasion I here give for the sneering jocularity of such as have no relish of an exact likeness ; which ...
... expression , as if he had made the arguments of his opponent fly like chaff before the wind . I am fully aware how very obvious an occasion I here give for the sneering jocularity of such as have no relish of an exact likeness ; which ...
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... expressed her gratitude . " " July 8. I lent Mr. Simpson ten guineas more . " Here he had a pleasing opportunity of doing the same kindness to an old friend , which he had formerly received from him . Indeed his liberality as to money ...
... expressed her gratitude . " " July 8. I lent Mr. Simpson ten guineas more . " Here he had a pleasing opportunity of doing the same kindness to an old friend , which he had formerly received from him . Indeed his liberality as to money ...
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... expression in his criticism on that author , in the Lives of the Poets , I put him in mind of his past injunctions to the young poet , to which he replied , " that he wished the shoemaker might have remembered them as well . " Mr ...
... expression in his criticism on that author , in the Lives of the Poets , I put him in mind of his past injunctions to the young poet , to which he replied , " that he wished the shoemaker might have remembered them as well . " Mr ...
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... expressed of his " Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard , " I cannot help admiring it as the per- formance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to the Divine Mystery , though beset with perplexing doubts : a state of mind to ...
... expressed of his " Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard , " I cannot help admiring it as the per- formance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to the Divine Mystery , though beset with perplexing doubts : a state of mind to ...
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... expressed in one or two particulars ; but there can be no doubt that he is substantially right , and that Dr. Johnson's statement was altogether unfounded . - Croker . Mr. Gibbon , however , about the same time ( 1763 ) gave a different ...
... expressed in one or two particulars ; but there can be no doubt that he is substantially right , and that Dr. Johnson's statement was altogether unfounded . - Croker . Mr. Gibbon , however , about the same time ( 1763 ) gave a different ...
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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...