The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... excellent TREATISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . Mr. Ballow died suddenly in London , July 26 , 1782 , aged seventy- five , and is mentioned in ...
... excellent TREATISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . Mr. Ballow died suddenly in London , July 26 , 1782 , aged seventy- five , and is mentioned in ...
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... excellent translator of " The Lusiad , " was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this even- ing . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a true poeti- cal genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His ...
... excellent translator of " The Lusiad , " was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this even- ing . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a true poeti- cal genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His ...
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... excellent Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare is addressed ; and Dr. Harwood , who has written and published various works ; particularly a fantastical translation of the New Testament , in modern phrase , and with a Socinian twist . 66 ...
... excellent Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare is addressed ; and Dr. Harwood , who has written and published various works ; particularly a fantastical translation of the New Testament , in modern phrase , and with a Socinian twist . 66 ...
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... composition , it appears from the original manuscript of this excellent dissertation , of which he dictated the first eight paragraphs on the 10th of May , Mr. Thomson wished to bring the cause by appeal before 58 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
... composition , it appears from the original manuscript of this excellent dissertation , of which he dictated the first eight paragraphs on the 10th of May , Mr. Thomson wished to bring the cause by appeal before 58 [ 1776 . THE LIFE OF.
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... excellent and eminent person to whom they are addressed : " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " DEAR SIR , I therefore send you Read it first yourself ; show it to the Club . " I HAVE been kept away from you , I know not well how , and of these ...
... excellent and eminent person to whom they are addressed : " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . " DEAR SIR , I therefore send you Read it first yourself ; show it to the Club . " I HAVE been kept away from you , I know not well how , and of these ...
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Página 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Página 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Página 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Página 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Página 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Página 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Página 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Página 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.