The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... instances might be adduced . He said , " It is commonly a weak man , who marries for love . " We then talked of marrying women of fortune ; and I mentioned a common remark , that a man may be , upon the whole , richer by marrying a ...
... instances might be adduced . He said , " It is commonly a weak man , who marries for love . " We then talked of marrying women of fortune ; and I mentioned a common remark , that a man may be , upon the whole , richer by marrying a ...
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... instances in an age . There is a strange rout made about deep play : whereas you have many more people ruined by adventurous trade , and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it . " THRALE . " There may be few people absolutely ...
... instances in an age . There is a strange rout made about deep play : whereas you have many more people ruined by adventurous trade , and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it . " THRALE . " There may be few people absolutely ...
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... instance of partiality . " He men- tioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . " The ...
... instance of partiality . " He men- tioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . " The ...
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... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the ...
... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the ...
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... instance , whether propriè is meant to signify in an appropriate manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
... instance , whether propriè is meant to signify in an appropriate manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
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Página 381 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 596 - 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 527 - 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 possessed.
Página 269 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 388 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Página 387 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.
Página 276 - 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 378 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 365 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.