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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... hope ( replied he ) , that I should have willingly lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them : but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for ...
... hope ( replied he ) , that I should have willingly lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them : but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for ...
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... language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation ( continued he ) is not worse than that of Frank See Life , vol . iv . , June 30 , 1784 . Fawkes . " Seeing me disposed to laugh , " BY MRS . PIOZZI . 21.
... language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation ( continued he ) is not worse than that of Frank See Life , vol . iv . , June 30 , 1784 . Fawkes . " Seeing me disposed to laugh , " BY MRS . PIOZZI . 21.
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... hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed ...
... hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed ...
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... hope ( replied he after a long pause ) —I should have been very sorry ; —but remember Rochefoucault's maxim . " — " I would rather ( answered I ) remember Prior's verses , and ask , ' What need of books these truths to tell , Which ...
... hope ( replied he after a long pause ) —I should have been very sorry ; —but remember Rochefoucault's maxim . " — " I would rather ( answered I ) remember Prior's verses , and ask , ' What need of books these truths to tell , Which ...
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... hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived long enough in the world to prevent me from expecting to find any action of which both the original motive and all the parts were good . " The piety of ...
... hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived long enough in the world to prevent me from expecting to find any action of which both the original motive and all the parts were good . " The piety of ...
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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.