The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Volume 61884 |
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... conversation . A New Biographical Dictionary of upwards 9700 Names of Noted Persons , Ancient and Modern , including many now living - giving the Name , Pronunciation , Nationality , Profession , and Date of Birth and Death . A List of ...
... conversation . A New Biographical Dictionary of upwards 9700 Names of Noted Persons , Ancient and Modern , including many now living - giving the Name , Pronunciation , Nationality , Profession , and Date of Birth and Death . A List of ...
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... -10 • 11 15 , 16 17 18 18 , 19 19 , 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29-32 33 34 36 37 40 41 43 • 45 50 51 52 53 53 54 54 , 55 56 , 57 60 61 67 , 68 68 69 , 70 PAGE Johnson's love of conversation Anecdotes of Goldsmith and Johnson.
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... conversation The charm of driving in a coach Johnson a great reader of French literature 109 110 112 His close observation of the smallest matters , though his sight so defective Mrs. Piozzi's account of the separation from Johnson Her ...
... conversation The charm of driving in a coach Johnson a great reader of French literature 109 110 112 His close observation of the smallest matters , though his sight so defective Mrs. Piozzi's account of the separation from Johnson Her ...
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... Conversation " was her brother's son . ' This Ford was a man who chose to be eminent only for vice , with talents that might have made him conspicuous in literature , and respectable in any profession he could have chosen : his cousin ...
... Conversation " was her brother's son . ' This Ford was a man who chose to be eminent only for vice , with talents that might have made him conspicuous in literature , and respectable in any profession he could have chosen : his cousin ...
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... conversation excellence , they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretensions as a writer . " Can one , on such an occa- sion , forbear recollecting the predictions of Boileau's father , when stroaking the head of the young ...
... conversation excellence , they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretensions as a writer . " Can one , on such an occa- sion , forbear recollecting the predictions of Boileau's father , when stroaking the head of the young ...
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Page 33 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 30 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom sage! and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
Page 393 - 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...
Page 27 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 393 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 365 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.