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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... letters from and to Miss Hill Boothby , showing Johnson in a sad and pathetic light , as the shades of life's evening were drawing round him . These letters are especially valued from having been collected and arranged by Johnson ...
... letters from and to Miss Hill Boothby , showing Johnson in a sad and pathetic light , as the shades of life's evening were drawing round him . These letters are especially valued from having been collected and arranged by Johnson ...
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... LETTERS . RECOLLECTIONS OF DR . JOHNSON BY MISS REYNOLDS SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S CHARACTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S INFLUENCE AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. , BY ARTHUR MURPHY · LETTERS FROM ...
... LETTERS . RECOLLECTIONS OF DR . JOHNSON BY MISS REYNOLDS SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S CHARACTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ON JOHNSON'S INFLUENCE AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. , BY ARTHUR MURPHY · LETTERS FROM ...
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... letter signed Sunday , was written by Miss Talbot ; and he fancied the billets in the first volume of the " Rambler , " were sent him by Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone . The papers contributed by Mrs. Carter , had much of his esteem ...
... letter signed Sunday , was written by Miss Talbot ; and he fancied the billets in the first volume of the " Rambler , " were sent him by Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone . The papers contributed by Mrs. Carter , had much of his esteem ...
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... letter written by him to Mr. Barnard the King's librarian , when he was in Italy collecting books , contained some very particular advice to his friend to be on his guard against the seductions of the church of Rome . The settled ...
... letter written by him to Mr. Barnard the King's librarian , when he was in Italy collecting books , contained some very particular advice to his friend to be on his guard against the seductions of the church of Rome . The settled ...
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... letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again , if possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again very kindly , and from that time his visits grew more frequent , till in the ...
... letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again , if possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again very kindly , and from that time his visits grew more frequent , till in the ...
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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.