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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... truth . If Johnson then lamented that so little had ever been said about Butler , ' I might with more reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as ...
... truth . If Johnson then lamented that so little had ever been said about Butler , ' I might with more reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as ...
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... truth . He told me however one day , how , when he was first entered at the university , he passed a morning , in compliance with the customs of the place , at his tutor's chamber ; but finding him no scholar , went no more . In about ...
... truth . He told me however one day , how , when he was first entered at the university , he passed a morning , in compliance with the customs of the place , at his tutor's chamber ; but finding him no scholar , went no more . In about ...
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... truth , would make the book useless to all , and in- jurious to my character . " " Oh ! as to that , " said I , " we should all fasten upon him , and force him to do you justice ; but the worst is , the Doctor does not know your life ...
... truth , would make the book useless to all , and in- jurious to my character . " " Oh ! as to that , " said I , " we should all fasten upon him , and force him to do you justice ; but the worst is , the Doctor does not know your life ...
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... truths in his " Lives of the later Poets , " what may I not apprehend , who , if I relate anecdotes of Mr. Johnson , am obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by ...
... truths in his " Lives of the later Poets , " what may I not apprehend , who , if I relate anecdotes of Mr. Johnson , am obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by ...
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... truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo of even unapprehended distress , how historians magnify events expected , or calamities endured ; when you know they are at this very moment collecting all the big words they can find , in which ...
... truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo of even unapprehended distress , how historians magnify events expected , or calamities endured ; when you know they are at this very moment collecting all the big words they can find , in which ...
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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.