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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... Human Wishes , " calling her " The general favourite as the general friend . " Nor could any one pay more willing homage to such a character , though she had not been related to him , than did Dr. Johnson on every occasion that offered ...
... Human Wishes , " calling her " The general favourite as the general friend . " Nor could any one pay more willing homage to such a character , though she had not been related to him , than did Dr. Johnson on every occasion that offered ...
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... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
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... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
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... human bliss to human woe . " ووو The inscription on the collar of Sir Joseph Banks's goat which had been on two of his adventurous expeditions with him , and was then , by the humanity of her amiable master , turned out to graze in Kent ...
... human bliss to human woe . " ووو The inscription on the collar of Sir Joseph Banks's goat which had been on two of his adventurous expeditions with him , and was then , by the humanity of her amiable master , turned out to graze in Kent ...
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... human mind . " Our English author on the other hand exclaims , let no man give himself leave to talk about infinite number , for infinite number is a contradiction in terms ; whatever is once numbered , we all see cannot be infinite ...
... human mind . " Our English author on the other hand exclaims , let no man give himself leave to talk about infinite number , for infinite number is a contradiction in terms ; whatever is once numbered , we all see cannot be infinite ...
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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.