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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... desire to know all that can be known about so great a man , the different articles in this volume are brought together . In former Johnsoniana , this has been done in the form of anecdotes and sayings . Extracts from various writers ...
... desire to know all that can be known about so great a man , the different articles in this volume are brought together . In former Johnsoniana , this has been done in the form of anecdotes and sayings . Extracts from various writers ...
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... desire admission to the family within , or leave to look over the collection of pictures made by one whose opportunities of obtaining them we know to have been not unfrequent . I wish not to keep my readers long from such intimacy with ...
... desire admission to the family within , or leave to look over the collection of pictures made by one whose opportunities of obtaining them we know to have been not unfrequent . I wish not to keep my readers long from such intimacy with ...
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... desire of those whose will I ever delighted to comply with , should have engaged me to add my little book to the number of those already written on the subject . I used to urge another reason for forbearance , and say , that all the ...
... desire of those whose will I ever delighted to comply with , should have engaged me to add my little book to the number of those already written on the subject . I used to urge another reason for forbearance , and say , that all the ...
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... desire to make them happy . - What signifies , says some one , giving halfpence to common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence ( says Johnson ) ? it is ...
... desire to make them happy . - What signifies , says some one , giving halfpence to common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence ( says Johnson ) ? it is ...
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... desire ; and when I first knew him , he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine . For the last twelve years however , he left off all fermented liquors . To make himself some amends indeed , he took his chocolate liberally , pouring ...
... desire ; and when I first knew him , he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine . For the last twelve years however , he left off all fermented liquors . To make himself some amends indeed , he took his chocolate liberally , pouring ...
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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.