The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P. F. Collier and Son, 1900 |
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... person was mentioned , who it was said could take down in short - hand the speeches in Parliament with perfect exactness . JOHNSON : " Sir , it is impossible . I remember one Angel , who came to me to write for him a 1 The compliment ...
... person was mentioned , who it was said could take down in short - hand the speeches in Parliament with perfect exactness . JOHNSON : " Sir , it is impossible . I remember one Angel , who came to me to write for him a 1 The compliment ...
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... person to do that which any one may do as well ? " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , one man has greater readiness at doing it than another . ” I spoke of Mr. Harris , of Salisbury , ' as being a very learned man , and in particular an eminent ...
... person to do that which any one may do as well ? " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , one man has greater readiness at doing it than another . ” I spoke of Mr. Harris , of Salisbury , ' as being a very learned man , and in particular an eminent ...
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... persons should , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's Church as well as in Westminster Abbey , was mentioned ; and it was asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope ...
... persons should , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's Church as well as in Westminster Abbey , was mentioned ; and it was asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope ...
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... person presented by the patron , it has been found necessary to appeal to the General Assembly . He said , I might see the subject well treated in the " Defence of Pluralities " ; and although he thought that a patron should exercise ...
... person presented by the patron , it has been found necessary to appeal to the General Assembly . He said , I might see the subject well treated in the " Defence of Pluralities " ; and although he thought that a patron should exercise ...
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... person : Sir , " said he to Johnson , " the gentleman has heard you patiently for an hour : pray allow us now to hear him . ' JOHNSON ( sternly ) : " Sir , I was not interrupting the gentleman . I was only giving him a signal of my ...
... person : Sir , " said he to Johnson , " the gentleman has heard you patiently for an hour : pray allow us now to hear him . ' JOHNSON ( sternly ) : " Sir , I was not interrupting the gentleman . I was only giving him a signal of my ...
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Página 364 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 196 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 368 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 28 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Página 426 - ' Yes, Sir, one of the best." BOSWELL. " Tillotson ?" JOHNSON. " Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style; though I don't know ; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language.
Página 61 - He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before...
Página 443 - by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence. There would be a lustre reflected upon them from your spirit and curiosity. They would be at all times regarded as the children of a man who had gone to view the wall of China. I am serious, sir.