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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... learning , I mean not to take from the one part of his character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study : nor can I think those ...
... learning , I mean not to take from the one part of his character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study : nor can I think those ...
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James Boswell Alexander Napier. which have most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can persuade myself to consider the river Jenisca as superior to the Nile , because the first receives near seventy tributary streams in ...
James Boswell Alexander Napier. which have most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can persuade myself to consider the river Jenisca as superior to the Nile , because the first receives near seventy tributary streams in ...
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... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
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... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
... learning , was expressed in terms so gross and so well known , I will not repeat them here . 1 To recollect , however , and to repeat the sayings of Dr. John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life ...
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... learning , and his goodness of heart : " He was the only man too ( says Mr. Johnson quite seriously ) that did justice to my good breeding ; and you may observe that I am well - bred to a degree of needless scrupulosity . No man ...
... learning , and his goodness of heart : " He was the only man too ( says Mr. Johnson quite seriously ) that did justice to my good breeding ; and you may observe that I am well - bred to a degree of needless scrupulosity . No man ...
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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.