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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... once , when Mr. Langton and he were driving together in a coach , and Mr. Langton complained of being sick , he insisted that they should go out , and sit on the back of it in the open air , which they did . And being sensible how ...
... once , when Mr. Langton and he were driving together in a coach , and Mr. Langton complained of being sick , he insisted that they should go out , and sit on the back of it in the open air , which they did . And being sensible how ...
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... once the heart of Johnson and the social merit of Garrick . In this year , except what he may have done in revising Shakspeare , we do not find that he laboured much in literature . He wrote a review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , " a ...
... once the heart of Johnson and the social merit of Garrick . In this year , except what he may have done in revising Shakspeare , we do not find that he laboured much in literature . He wrote a review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , " a ...
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... once , perhaps unperceived by him , writing at a table , so near the place of his retreat , that I 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 ...
... once , perhaps unperceived by him , writing at a table , so near the place of his retreat , that I 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 ...
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... once perfection . " This was the speech which acquired for him the name of " single speech Hamilton , " an epithet not altogether correct , for he spoke again on the same subject , February , 1756 , when , as Walpole says , he shone ...
... once perfection . " This was the speech which acquired for him the name of " single speech Hamilton , " an epithet not altogether correct , for he spoke again on the same subject , February , 1756 , when , as Walpole says , he shone ...
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... once paid this high com- pliment : " I am very unwilling to be left alone , Sir , and therefore I go with my company down the first pair of stairs , in some hopes that they may , perhaps , return again ; I go with you , Sir , as far as ...
... once paid this high com- pliment : " I am very unwilling to be left alone , Sir , and therefore I go with my company down the first pair of stairs , in some hopes that they may , perhaps , return again ; I go with you , Sir , as far as ...
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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...