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 4Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1859 - 291 pages |
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... late for heroic poesy , thus concludes : " However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages , he might still be great among his contemporaries , with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity ; he ...
... late for heroic poesy , thus concludes : " However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages , he might still be great among his contemporaries , with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity ; he ...
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... late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysics ) , he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . Johnson has remarked , that time toiled after him in vain . ' But I should apprehend , that this is ...
... late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysics ) , he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . Johnson has remarked , that time toiled after him in vain . ' But I should apprehend , that this is ...
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... late Mr. Fitzherbert told Mr. Langton that Johnson said to him , 1 Dr. Berkeley was the Bishop of Cloyne , and a metaphysical writer of great celebrity . His bold hypothesis of the non - existence of material objects in Nature otherwise ...
... late Mr. Fitzherbert told Mr. Langton that Johnson said to him , 1 Dr. Berkeley was the Bishop of Cloyne , and a metaphysical writer of great celebrity . His bold hypothesis of the non - existence of material objects in Nature otherwise ...
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... late Earl of Hopeton . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered , " An't please your Lordship , this is a very odd sort of ...
... late Earl of Hopeton . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered , " An't please your Lordship , this is a very odd sort of ...
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... late Lord Somerville , 1 who saw much of great and brilliant life , told me , that he had dined in company with Pope , and that after dinner the little man , as he called him , drank his bottle of Burgundy , and was exceedingly gay and ...
... late Lord Somerville , 1 who saw much of great and brilliant life , told me , that he had dined in company with Pope , and that after dinner the little man , as he called him , drank his bottle of Burgundy , and was exceedingly gay and ...
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Page 74 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 60 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 112 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience ; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Page 40 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Page 90 - They are more powerful, Sir, than we, answered Imlac, because they are wiser ; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given, but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Page 27 - 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 290 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
Page 32 - As he was so good as to make me a present of the greatest part of the original, and indeed only manuscript of this admirable work, I have an opportunity of observing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck off such glowing composition. He may be assimilated to the Lady in Waller, who could impress with 'Love at first sight:' 'Some other nymphs with colours faint, And pencil slow may Cupid paint, And a weak heart in time destroy; She has a stamp, and prints the boy.
Page 126 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...
Page 71 - 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.