The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - 1854 pages |
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... pounds in a year to those that importune in the streets , and not do any good . " " There is nothing more likely to betray a man into ab- surdity , than condescension ; when he seems to suppose his understanding too powerful for his ...
... pounds in a year to those that importune in the streets , and not do any good . " " There is nothing more likely to betray a man into ab- surdity , than condescension ; when he seems to suppose his understanding too powerful for his ...
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... pounds , over and above two hundred , for which his agreement was to furnish such prefaces as he thought fit . This was , however , but a small recompense for such a collection of biography , and such principles and illustra- tions of ...
... pounds , over and above two hundred , for which his agreement was to furnish such prefaces as he thought fit . This was , however , but a small recompense for such a collection of biography , and such principles and illustra- tions of ...
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... pounds . 66 Congratulating Charles the second on his [ coronation ] recovered right . “ He that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissi- tudes of the world happen to exalt , must be [ confessed to degrade his powers ] scorned as a ...
... pounds . 66 Congratulating Charles the second on his [ coronation ] recovered right . “ He that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissi- tudes of the world happen to exalt , must be [ confessed to degrade his powers ] scorned as a ...
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... pounds , and " reclaimed his loan by an execution . " In the new edition of the Biographia Britannica , the authenticity of this anecdote is Emulated former pieces . Cooper's - hill . Dryden's ode . Affected to disdain flattery . Not ...
... pounds , and " reclaimed his loan by an execution . " In the new edition of the Biographia Britannica , the authenticity of this anecdote is Emulated former pieces . Cooper's - hill . Dryden's ode . Affected to disdain flattery . Not ...
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... pounds a year . Sir Philip had the ap- pearance of a gentleman of ancient family , well advanced in life . He wore his own white hair in a bag of goodly size , a black velvet coat , with an embroidered waistcoat , and very rich laced ...
... pounds a year . Sir Philip had the ap- pearance of a gentleman of ancient family , well advanced in life . He wore his own white hair in a bag of goodly size , a black velvet coat , with an embroidered waistcoat , and very rich laced ...
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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.