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Page xi
... letter from Mr Walm- sley : " To the Rev. Mr COLSON . " DEAR SIR , Lichfield , March 2 , 1737 . " I HAD the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before ...
... letter from Mr Walm- sley : " To the Rev. Mr COLSON . " DEAR SIR , Lichfield , March 2 , 1737 . " I HAD the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before ...
Page xiii
... letter to Mr Boswell : " Those motions or " tricks of Dr Johnson are improperly called con- " vulsions . He could sit motionless when he was " told so to do , as well as any other man . My " opinion is , that it proceeded from a habit ...
... letter to Mr Boswell : " Those motions or " tricks of Dr Johnson are improperly called con- " vulsions . He could sit motionless when he was " told so to do , as well as any other man . My " opinion is , that it proceeded from a habit ...
Page xxviii
... Letters of Junius . It had the effect of diffusing very ge- nerally a more careful mode of writing than was formerly adopted , while , on the other hand , the general fondness for physical studies which has been introduced of late years ...
... Letters of Junius . It had the effect of diffusing very ge- nerally a more careful mode of writing than was formerly adopted , while , on the other hand , the general fondness for physical studies which has been introduced of late years ...
Page xxx
... letter of recantation , addressed to Dr Douglas , which he prevailed with Lauder to subscribe ; but the latter afterwards thought fit to recant his recantation . In 1752 Johnson's wife died . The disparity between the age of the parties ...
... letter of recantation , addressed to Dr Douglas , which he prevailed with Lauder to subscribe ; but the latter afterwards thought fit to recant his recantation . In 1752 Johnson's wife died . The disparity between the age of the parties ...
Page xxxi
... letter : " To the Right Hon . the EARL of CHESTERFIELD . " MY LORD , " I HAVE been lately informed by the Proprie- tors of The World , that two papers , in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public , were written by your Lordship ...
... letter : " To the Right Hon . the EARL of CHESTERFIELD . " MY LORD , " I HAVE been lately informed by the Proprie- tors of The World , that two papers , in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public , were written by your Lordship ...
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Page xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page xxxii - 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.
Page 20 - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
Page 15 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page xxxiv - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 23 - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
Page lix - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Page 21 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page xlix - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
Page 21 - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...