 | English authors - 1869 - 458 páginas
...be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have long been wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted...your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. XXXVI. DAVID HUME. 1711—1776. DAVID HUME was born at Edinburgh in 1711, and died... | |
 | George Seton - 1870 - 276 páginas
...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...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. Sir Walter's letters are very pleasant reading, particularly those addressed to the members of 8o Sir... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 páginas
...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I...your Lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. . FROM THE PREFACE TO HIS DICTIONARY. In hope of giving longevity to that which its... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 618 páginas
...possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, on which I once boasted with so much exultation. " My Lord, your lordship's...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." 5. Historical Writings are accounts of past events and transactions. They include National History,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1871 - 564 páginas
...consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having earned on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...most humble, most obedient Servant, SAM. JOHNSON. CHAPTER XI. OTHEK WEITEKS OF THE SEVENTH ERA. POETS. WILLIAM SHENSTONE, born in 1714, at Leasowesin... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. [From Rasselas. — A Dissertation on Poetry.] "\VHEREVER I went, I found that poetry was considered... | |
 | 1872 - 660 páginas
...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I...Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE TO THE DICTIONARY. Ix hope of giving longevity to that which... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 páginas
...to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description—as different as the character... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 páginas
...be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been iorig wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted...Your Lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON.' In the few years succeeding the publicntion of his u Dictionary," be employed himself... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...with во little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall n g\ =:a?u }-5 L 娽| S <~ 8` >] Wgn z ȿ) g +n ' While this wa« the talk of the town,' says Dr. Adams in a letter to me, ' I happened to visit Dr.... | |
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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... 
