The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1831 |
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... , the general testimony is satisfactory , and it is to a considerable extent corroborated by every kind of evidence external and internal . - ED . But , after all , Mr. Boswell himself is not X PREFACE TO THIS EDITION .
... , the general testimony is satisfactory , and it is to a considerable extent corroborated by every kind of evidence external and internal . - ED . But , after all , Mr. Boswell himself is not X PREFACE TO THIS EDITION .
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... kind as to communicate Dr. John- son's letters to that lady . Mr. Langton , the grandson of Mr. Bennet Lang- ton , has furnished the editor with some of his grand- father's papers , and several original MSS . of Dr. Johnson's Latin ...
... kind as to communicate Dr. John- son's letters to that lady . Mr. Langton , the grandson of Mr. Bennet Lang- ton , has furnished the editor with some of his grand- father's papers , and several original MSS . of Dr. Johnson's Latin ...
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... kind as to die- tate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident ' , were lost , and his lordship's great age and increasing infirmity have deterred the ...
... kind as to die- tate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident ' , were lost , and his lordship's great age and increasing infirmity have deterred the ...
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... kind of employment will be found to have suffered from the weightier occupations in which he was engaged , as well as from his own deficiencies . ¡ ¡ If unfortunately he shall be found to have failed in his attempt to improve the ...
... kind of employment will be found to have suffered from the weightier occupations in which he was engaged , as well as from his own deficiencies . ¡ ¡ If unfortunately he shall be found to have failed in his attempt to improve the ...
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... kind of reputation he attained ; neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however ...
... kind of reputation he attained ; neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . The public , however ...
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Page 250 - 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. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Page 249 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Page 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?
Page 50 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Page 485 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
Page 118 - Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared...