The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volumen11821 |
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... PERSONS ; AND Various Original Pieces of his Composition , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL ...
... PERSONS ; AND Various Original Pieces of his Composition , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL ...
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... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the di- stinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the di- stinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
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... person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and ...
... person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and ...
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... persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to under- stand his mode of treating his friends , have ar- raigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was sensible of all that they ...
... persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to under- stand his mode of treating his friends , have ar- raigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was sensible of all that they ...
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... Work by many and various persons eminent for their rank , learning , talents , and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under XX ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . their hands to TO THE SECOND EDITION . xix.
... Work by many and various persons eminent for their rank , learning , talents , and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under XX ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . their hands to TO THE SECOND EDITION . xix.
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Página xxxvi - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Página 206 - World' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 206 - ... Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...
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Página 157 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
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.
Página 300 - This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
Página 63 - Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man less fit for it.
Página xii - I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly ; which, when I had accomplished, I well knew would obtain me no praise, though a failure would have been to my discredit.