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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... heard him repeating some lines in an ode of Horace , over and over again , as if by iteration to exercise the organs of speech , and fix the ode in his memory : " Audiet cives acuisse ferrum Quo graves Perse melius perirent , Audiet ...
... heard him repeating some lines in an ode of Horace , over and over again , as if by iteration to exercise the organs of speech , and fix the ode in his memory : " Audiet cives acuisse ferrum Quo graves Perse melius perirent , Audiet ...
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... heard likewise of your recovery , and therefore escape that part of your pain , which every man must feel , to whom you are known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder , I know not in what state it ...
... heard likewise of your recovery , and therefore escape that part of your pain , which every man must feel , to whom you are known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder , I know not in what state it ...
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... heard Dr. Johnson say , “ An English merchant is a new species of gentleman . " He , perhaps , had in his mind the following ingenious passage in The Conscious Lovers , act iv . , scene 2 , where Mr. Sealand thus addresses Sir John ...
... heard Dr. Johnson say , “ An English merchant is a new species of gentleman . " He , perhaps , had in his mind the following ingenious passage in The Conscious Lovers , act iv . , scene 2 , where Mr. Sealand thus addresses Sir John ...
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... heard of them ; upon which Dr. Johnson observed , " Sir , he is one of the many who have made themselves public , without making themselves known . " 1 A young student of Oxford , of the name of Barclay , wrote an answer to Kenrick's ...
... heard of them ; upon which Dr. Johnson observed , " Sir , he is one of the many who have made themselves public , without making themselves known . " 1 A young student of Oxford , of the name of Barclay , wrote an answer to Kenrick's ...
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... heard in that island , it proceeded thus : " I dare to call this a spirited tour . I dare to challenge your approbation . " This letter produced the following answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . " DEAR SIR , 66 A M. M. ...
... heard in that island , it proceeded thus : " I dare to call this a spirited tour . I dare to challenge your approbation . " This letter produced the following answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . " DEAR SIR , 66 A M. M. ...
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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...