The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A Reprint of the First Edition, to which are Added Mr. Boswell's Corrections and Aditions, Issued in 1792; the Variations of the Second Edition, with Some of the Author's Notes Prepared for the Third, Volume 1S. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1900 |
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... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the Work with many valuable additions ...
... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the Work with many valuable additions ...
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... of Milton ; " " with this of Milton's or the other's life ; " " the only one that by , " & c . ** I SHALL endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to 11 ? THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 3 for his decent, religious demeanour, and his knowledge ...
... of Milton ; " " with this of Milton's or the other's life ; " " the only one that by , " & c . ** I SHALL endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to 11 ? THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 3 for his decent, religious demeanour, and his knowledge ...
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... endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to give you what satisfaction I can in any thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before ...
... endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to give you what satisfaction I can in any thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before ...
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... endeavour to record , and Nathanael who died in his twenty - fifth year . Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body , and of a strong and active mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often ...
... endeavour to record , and Nathanael who died in his twenty - fifth year . Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body , and of a strong and active mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often ...
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... endeavour to find out who this new authour was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had discovered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , " He will soon be deterré ...
... endeavour to find out who this new authour was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had discovered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , " He will soon be deterré ...
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Page 165 - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his, but who was ever eminent for literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jen d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary: 'H seldom, perhaps never, begins any but the first syllable.
Page 83 - O thou whose pow'er o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path- motive, guide, original, and end.
Page 145 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 194 - 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 117 - 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...
Page 265 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.
Page 293 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Page 35 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, 'The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that College, the Reverend William Adams, DD, who was then...
Page 53 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose " he hired a large house, well situated, near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 135 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 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.