The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volumul 1Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH . " " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 66 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : well writes a regular journal of our ...
... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH . " " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 66 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : well writes a regular journal of our ...
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learn- . ing , Book I. ] Having said thus much by ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learn- . ing , Book I. ] Having said thus much by ...
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... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap thereabouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : Why now , says my uncle , I could leap it in my boots ; and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another uncle ...
... honour of a man who had leaped a certain leap thereabouts , the extent of which was specified upon the stone : Why now , says my uncle , I could leap it in my boots ; and he did leap it in his boots . I had likewise another uncle ...
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... honour to human nature . ' Talking to me himself once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
... honour to human nature . ' Talking to me himself once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
Pagina 45
... honour by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ” 66 He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
... honour by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ” 66 He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
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Pagina 216 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Pagina 217 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 59 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire— why, it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pagina 184 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pagina 243 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Pagina 216 - 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.
Pagina 160 - Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Pagina 217 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning', I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, ' My Lord, ' Your Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant,
Pagina 314 - Sir, I cannot think Mr. Garrick would grudge such a trifle to you.' ' Sir,' said he, with a stern look, ' I have known David Garrick longer than you have done; and I know no right you have to talk to me on the subject.
Pagina 159 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...