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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... thing wanting the possession of this would have preserved her loyal to her husband's memory and the claims of friendship , and saved her from an infatuation that deteriorated her own character and alienated her best friends . 29 Next to ...
... thing wanting the possession of this would have preserved her loyal to her husband's memory and the claims of friendship , and saved her from an infatuation that deteriorated her own character and alienated her best friends . 29 Next to ...
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... thing highly sauced , and calls for his boiled chicken at the close of many years spent in the search of dainties ; the connoisseurs are soon weary of Rubens , and the critics of Lucan ; and the refinements of every kind heaped upon ...
... thing highly sauced , and calls for his boiled chicken at the close of many years spent in the search of dainties ; the connoisseurs are soon weary of Rubens , and the critics of Lucan ; and the refinements of every kind heaped upon ...
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... thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years ... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the ...
... thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years ... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the ...
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... thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it down directly , before anything could intervene that ... thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but ...
... thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it down directly , before anything could intervene that ... thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but ...
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... thing by accident more than he thought it deserved ; and was on such occasions comically earnest to destroy the praise or plea- sure he had unintentionally given . Sir Joshua Reynolds mentioned some picture as excellent . “ It has often ...
... thing by accident more than he thought it deserved ; and was on such occasions comically earnest to destroy the praise or plea- sure he had unintentionally given . Sir Joshua Reynolds mentioned some picture as excellent . “ It has often ...
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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.