The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Nichols, 1816 |
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Pagina 37
... hope you will burn this , and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but , if you think there is a pro- bability of obtaining the favour asked , I am sure your humanity and propensity to " relieve merit ...
... hope you will burn this , and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but , if you think there is a pro- bability of obtaining the favour asked , I am sure your humanity and propensity to " relieve merit ...
Pagina 78
... hope it is " no very cynical asperity not to confess ob- ligations where no benefit has been re- “ ceived ; or to be unwilling that the publick " should consider me as owing that to a 66 66 66 66 66 patron , which Providence has enabled ...
... hope it is " no very cynical asperity not to confess ob- ligations where no benefit has been re- “ ceived ; or to be unwilling that the publick " should consider me as owing that to a 66 66 66 66 66 patron , which Providence has enabled ...
Pagina 79
... hope , in " which I once boasted myself with so much " exultation , " MY LORD , " Your Lordship's most humble " and most obedient servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It is said , upon good authority , that John- son once received from Lord ...
... hope , in " which I once boasted myself with so much " exultation , " MY LORD , " Your Lordship's most humble " and most obedient servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It is said , upon good authority , that John- son once received from Lord ...
Pagina 86
... hope ! I form a grand design ; Languor succeeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open not her richest vein , Without materials all our toil is vain . A form to rugged stone when Phidias gives , Beneath his touch a new creation ...
... hope ! I form a grand design ; Languor succeeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open not her richest vein , Without materials all our toil is vain . A form to rugged stone when Phidias gives , Beneath his touch a new creation ...
Pagina 127
... hope we shall be much to- 66 " " 66 gether . You must now be to me what you were before , and what dear Mr. Allen was besides . He was taken unexpectedly but I think he was a very good man . 130 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... hope we shall be much to- 66 " " 66 gether . You must now be to me what you were before , and what dear Mr. Allen was besides . He was taken unexpectedly but I think he was a very good man . 130 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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Pagina 44 - Johnson : one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Pagina 190 - Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Pagina 139 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Pagina 76 - ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Pagina 187 - 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; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Pagina 182 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait ; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost ; He comes...
Pagina 183 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale. All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord.
Pagina 175 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Pagina 187 - 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?
Pagina 55 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...