English Men of Letters: Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 1900; Johnson by Leslie Stenphen, 1900; Gray, by Edmund Gosse, 1899Macmillan and Company, 1900 |
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... Johnson seems to have had some acquaintances among the com- fortable families in the neighbourhood ; but his means of living are obscure . Some small literary work came in his way . He contributed essays to a local paper , and ...
... Johnson seems to have had some acquaintances among the com- fortable families in the neighbourhood ; but his means of living are obscure . Some small literary work came in his way . He contributed essays to a local paper , and ...
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... Johnson apparently knew how to regain supremacy ; but , at any rate , Johnson loved her devotedly during life , and clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years , as fondly as if they had been the most pattern hero ...
... Johnson apparently knew how to regain supremacy ; but , at any rate , Johnson loved her devotedly during life , and clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years , as fondly as if they had been the most pattern hero ...
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... Johnson's sole support ; and by literature was meant , for the most part , drudgery of the kind indicated by the phrase , " translating for book- sellers . " While still in Lichfield , Johnson had , as I have said , written to Cave ...
... Johnson's sole support ; and by literature was meant , for the most part , drudgery of the kind indicated by the phrase , " translating for book- sellers . " While still in Lichfield , Johnson had , as I have said , written to Cave ...
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Johnson saw in it an opening for the employment of his literary talents ; and regarded its contributors with that awe so natural in youthful aspirants , and at once so comic and pathetic to writers of a little experience . The names of ...
Johnson saw in it an opening for the employment of his literary talents ; and regarded its contributors with that awe so natural in youthful aspirants , and at once so comic and pathetic to writers of a little experience . The names of ...
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... Johnson . Long afterwards , at a dinner at Foote's , Francis ( the father of Junius ) mentioned a speech of Pitt's as the best he had ever read , and superior to anything in Demosthenes . Hereupon Johnson replied , " I wrote that speech ...
... Johnson . Long afterwards , at a dinner at Foote's , Francis ( the father of Junius ) mentioned a speech of Pitt's as the best he had ever read , and superior to anything in Demosthenes . Hereupon Johnson replied , " I wrote that speech ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Addison admiration afterwards Ambrose Philips amusing antistrophe appeared became Bolingbroke Bonstetten Boswell Boswell's called Cambridge character companion criticism Curll death Dryden Dunciad edition Elegy English English poetry Eton feeling friendship Garrick genius give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Homer honour Horace Walpole kind Lady later less letters Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Lucy Porter Mason melancholy mind Miss months nature never Nicholls once passages Pembroke Pembroke College perhaps person Peterhouse phrase Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Pope Pope's praise probably published Rambler received remark replied Johnson Reynolds Roger Long SAMUEL JOHNSON satire Savage says seems sense spirit stanza Stoke story Strawberry Hill Streatham style Swift talk tell Thomas Gray thought Thrale tion told took Twickenham vanity verses Wharton Whig whilst writing wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 60 - Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Página 101 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 64 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
Página 98 - Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!
Página 132 - Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear.
Página 46 - 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, SAM. JOHNSON.
Página 179 - He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place.
Página 45 - 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 native of the rocks.
Página 118 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 45 - 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.