The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pages |
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... person's own difficulties and worries , to see how deep and minute an interest he took in the affairs of one who had actually obtained a place in his heart , and how sound and , above all things , honest an adviser he could be . His ...
... person's own difficulties and worries , to see how deep and minute an interest he took in the affairs of one who had actually obtained a place in his heart , and how sound and , above all things , honest an adviser he could be . His ...
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... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the dis- tinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the dis- tinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
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... person who is the subject of the book ; and in that there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts , as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable , and cer- tainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still ...
... person who is the subject of the book ; and in that there is such an inaccuracy in the statement of facts , as in so solemn an author is hardly excusable , and cer- tainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still ...
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... person named Jarvis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , whom he afterwards married . -MALONE . In what manner he employed his pen at this period , or whether he derived from it any pe- cuniary advantage , I have not been able to ...
... person named Jarvis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , whom he afterwards married . -MALONE . In what manner he employed his pen at this period , or whether he derived from it any pe- cuniary advantage , I have not been able to ...
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... person for whom Johnson wrote those verses , which have been erroneously ascribed to Mr. Ham- mond . I am obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of ...
... person for whom Johnson wrote those verses , which have been erroneously ascribed to Mr. Ham- mond . I am obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of ...
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Page 72 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Page 72 - 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 the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le...
Page 429 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 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 72 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 83 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 127 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Page 117 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Page 410 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Page 72 - 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 the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Page 11 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.