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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... perhaps the most useful Dictionary for general reference extant , as it is undoubtedly one of the cheapest books ever published , are as follows : - 1. Completeness . - It contains 114,000 words - more by 10,000 than any other ...
... perhaps the most useful Dictionary for general reference extant , as it is undoubtedly one of the cheapest books ever published , are as follows : - 1. Completeness . - It contains 114,000 words - more by 10,000 than any other ...
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... perhaps , look most eagerly to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life ...
... perhaps , look most eagerly to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life ...
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... perhaps , to sit up and beg , as we call it , to divert a company , who at last go away complaining of their disagreeable entertainment . " In consequence of these maxims , and full of indignation against such parents as delight to ...
... perhaps , to sit up and beg , as we call it , to divert a company , who at last go away complaining of their disagreeable entertainment . " In consequence of these maxims , and full of indignation against such parents as delight to ...
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... perhaps never wished for ; while the man of general knowledge can often benefit , and always please . " He used to relate , however , another story less to the credit of his cousin's penetration , how Ford on some occasion said to him ...
... perhaps never wished for ; while the man of general knowledge can often benefit , and always please . " He used to relate , however , another story less to the credit of his cousin's penetration , how Ford on some occasion said to him ...
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... perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets , and wonder when you ' See vol . i . , pp . 18 , 19 . have done that they do not delight in your company 12 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON.
... perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets , and wonder when you ' See vol . i . , pp . 18 , 19 . have done that they do not delight in your company 12 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON.
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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.