The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - 1854 pages |
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... known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man , with ...
... known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man , with ...
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... His Latin ( says the author of Nouveau Dic- tionnaire Historique , 1789 , ) would have been more pure if he had not known so many languages . - MALONE . sell ; and my poor friend Doddy said , publick ETAT . 71. ] 15 DR . JOHNSON .
... His Latin ( says the author of Nouveau Dic- tionnaire Historique , 1789 , ) would have been more pure if he had not known so many languages . - MALONE . sell ; and my poor friend Doddy said , publick ETAT . 71. ] 15 DR . JOHNSON .
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... known that his lordship died before the sentence was made known . " " " Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses ' in Dodsley's collection , which he recited with his It should be remembered , that this was said twenty ...
... known that his lordship died before the sentence was made known . " " " Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses ' in Dodsley's collection , which he recited with his It should be remembered , that this was said twenty ...
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... as well as after Shakespeare . The workings of an ordinary mind keep pace , indeed , with time ; they move no faster ; they have their beginning , their middle , and their " It is well known that there was formerly a 20 [ 1780 . THE LIFE ...
... as well as after Shakespeare . The workings of an ordinary mind keep pace , indeed , with time ; they move no faster ; they have their beginning , their middle , and their " It is well known that there was formerly a 20 [ 1780 . THE LIFE ...
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James Boswell. " It is well known that there was formerly a rude cus- tom for those who were sailing upon the Thames to accost each other as they passed , in the most abusive language they could invent , generally , however , with as ...
James Boswell. " It is well known that there was formerly a rude cus- tom for those who were sailing upon the Thames to accost each other as they passed , in the most abusive language they could invent , generally , however , with as ...
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Page 85 - 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 ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 256 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Page 82 - 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.
Page 25 - 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.
Page 162 - There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing ; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,
Page 366 - 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.
Page 276 - tis all a cheat. Yet, fool'd 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.
Page 37 - He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
Page 256 - I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called...
Page 93 - ... one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. 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.