The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.W. P. Nimmo, 1873 - 560 páginas |
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... passed , those belonging to the two first classes are of least value . He would not , or could not , take the trouble to judge an author by his whole works ; but he would fix upon a line or a stanza , and build up a criticism eulo ...
... passed , those belonging to the two first classes are of least value . He would not , or could not , take the trouble to judge an author by his whole works ; but he would fix upon a line or a stanza , and build up a criticism eulo ...
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... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward 1 Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother ...
... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward 1 Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother ...
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... passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his tutor . His being put under any tutor , reminds ...
... passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his tutor . His being put under any tutor , reminds ...
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... passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so ...
... passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so ...
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... passed there the happiest part of his life . ' But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances , and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently ; for the truth is , that he ...
... passed there the happiest part of his life . ' But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances , and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently ; for the truth is , that he ...
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Página 451 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 72 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 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...
Página 118 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Página 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 72 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 17 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken; his learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 193 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Página 72 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 121 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Página 98 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.