The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volumen11821 |
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... mother in her last illness , furnish a new proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart , and there- fore cannot but be acceptable to the readers of this very popular work . Some new notes also have been added , which , as well as ...
... mother in her last illness , furnish a new proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart , and there- fore cannot but be acceptable to the readers of this very popular work . Some new notes also have been added , which , as well as ...
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... mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire . They were well advanced in years when they married , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first - born , who ...
... mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire . They were well advanced in years when they married , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first - born , who ...
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... mother was a woman of distinguished understanding . I asked his old schoolfellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value ...
... mother was a woman of distinguished understanding . I asked his old schoolfellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value ...
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... mother . One day , when the servant who used to be sent to- school to conduct him home , had not come in time , he set out by himself , though he was then so near- sighted , that he was obliged to stoop down on his hands and knees to ...
... mother . One day , when the servant who used to be sent to- school to conduct him home , had not come in time , he set out by himself , though he was then so near- sighted , that he was obliged to stoop down on his hands and knees to ...
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... mother . When he was a child in petticoats , and had learnt to read , Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayer book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went ...
... mother . When he was a child in petticoats , and had learnt to read , Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayer book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went ...
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Página 103 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Página 210 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
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Página 49 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Página 65 - Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance, with swelled cheeks, of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour.
Página 40 - 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'.
Página 44 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.