The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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Page 57
... once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . ' He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
... once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . ' He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
Page 72
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious in- dulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object ...
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious in- dulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object ...
Page 262
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
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