The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volumen41807 |
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... wonderful frankness and candour , and would even criticise them with the closest seve- rity . One day , having read over one of his Ramblers , Mr. Langton asked him , how he liked that paper ; he shook his head , and answered , too ...
... wonderful frankness and candour , and would even criticise them with the closest seve- rity . One day , having read over one of his Ramblers , Mr. Langton asked him , how he liked that paper ; he shook his head , and answered , too ...
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... wonderful improvement . " " Greek , Sir , ( said he ) is like lace ; every man gets as much of it as he can . ' 916 " When Lord Charles Hay , after his return from America , was preparing his defence to be offered to the Court - martial ...
... wonderful improvement . " " Greek , Sir , ( said he ) is like lace ; every man gets as much of it as he can . ' 916 " When Lord Charles Hay , after his return from America , was preparing his defence to be offered to the Court - martial ...
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... wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Lang- ton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon to- picks which it was evident he would have illustrated with extensive knowledge and richness of ...
... wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Lang- ton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon to- picks which it was evident he would have illustrated with extensive knowledge and richness of ...
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... wonderful in- deed ! " He observed once , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , that a beggar in the street will more readily ask alms from a man , though there should be no marks of wealth in his appearance , than from even a well- dressed woman ...
... wonderful in- deed ! " He observed once , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , that a beggar in the street will more readily ask alms from a man , though there should be no marks of wealth in his appearance , than from even a well- dressed woman ...
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... wonderful ; indeed his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear teşti- mony to the frankness of his communications in private society . It is not my intention to dwell upon each of ...
... wonderful ; indeed his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear teşti- mony to the frankness of his communications in private society . It is not my intention to dwell upon each of ...
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Página 436 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 326 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 111 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Página 149 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Página 111 - ... similitude: sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, .in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Página 45 - ... felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
Página 111 - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth things by, which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
Página 31 - Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Página 202 - It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
Página 468 - ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.