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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Page vii
... that when Mrs. Thrale wrote of this friend ( doubtless Mr. Musgrave ) from Bath , in May , 1776 , Dr. Campbell was not at Bath , but in Ireland . Extracts from Hannah More's letters and Fanny Burney's diary , PREFATORY NOTICE . vii.
... that when Mrs. Thrale wrote of this friend ( doubtless Mr. Musgrave ) from Bath , in May , 1776 , Dr. Campbell was not at Bath , but in Ireland . Extracts from Hannah More's letters and Fanny Burney's diary , PREFATORY NOTICE . vii.
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... wrote over but one copy , and that coarsely ; and having given it into the hand of the tutor who stood to receive it as he passed , was obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ...
... wrote over but one copy , and that coarsely ; and having given it into the hand of the tutor who stood to receive it as he passed , was obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ...
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... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Upon revising these Anecdotes , it is impossible not to be struck with shame and regret that one treasured no more of them up ; but no experience is sufficient to cure the vice of ...
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Upon revising these Anecdotes , it is impossible not to be struck with shame and regret that one treasured no more of them up ; but no experience is sufficient to cure the vice of ...
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... wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . Of the allegorical papers in the " Rambler , " Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with ...
... wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . Of the allegorical papers in the " Rambler , " Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with ...
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... wrote with his feet . " Of a modern Martial , when it came out : " There are in these verses ( says Dr. Johnson ) too much folly for madness , I think , and too much madness for folly . " If , however , Mr. Johnson lamented , that the ...
... wrote with his feet . " Of a modern Martial , when it came out : " There are in these verses ( says Dr. Johnson ) too much folly for madness , I think , and too much madness for folly . " If , however , Mr. Johnson lamented , that 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.