Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poemsGeorge Dearborn, 1834 |
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... continued at the university till the want of pecuniary supplies obliged him to quit the place . He obtained , however , the assistance of a friend , and returning in a short time , was able to complete a residence of three years . The ...
... continued at the university till the want of pecuniary supplies obliged him to quit the place . He obtained , however , the assistance of a friend , and returning in a short time , was able to complete a residence of three years . The ...
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... continued it from that time to the debate on spirituous liquors , which happened in the House of Lords in February 1742-3 . The eloquence , the force of argument , and the splen- dour of language displayed in the several care that the ...
... continued it from that time to the debate on spirituous liquors , which happened in the House of Lords in February 1742-3 . The eloquence , the force of argument , and the splen- dour of language displayed in the several care that the ...
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... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when , in their opinion , they have completed them . This last was Johnson's method . He never took his pen in hand till he had well weighed his subject , and grasped in his mind ...
... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when , in their opinion , they have completed them . This last was Johnson's method . He never took his pen in hand till he had well weighed his subject , and grasped in his mind ...
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... continued in the city , administering medical as - pleted in 1781. Should Biography fall again sistance , was suffered , as Johnson used to re - into disuse , there will not always be a Johnson late with tears in his eyes , to die for ...
... continued in the city , administering medical as - pleted in 1781. Should Biography fall again sistance , was suffered , as Johnson used to re - into disuse , there will not always be a Johnson late with tears in his eyes , to die for ...
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... continued 213 216 • 87 The reasons why advice is generally inef- fectual 88 A criticism on Milton's versification , sions dangerous in English poetry 89 The luxury of vain imagination • 90 The pauses in English poetry adjusted 91 The ...
... continued 213 216 • 87 The reasons why advice is generally inef- fectual 88 A criticism on Milton's versification , sions dangerous in English poetry 89 The luxury of vain imagination • 90 The pauses in English poetry adjusted 91 The ...
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Page xiv - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page xiv - 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 101 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that 'his walk was now quick, and again slow,' as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
Page 256 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 19 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety or the dignity of courage be so united with it as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 109 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Page xiv - 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 vii - I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those good-natured gentlemen apprehend : especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than the llth of next month. If you see this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you will burn this and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but, if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked, I am sure your humanity, and propensity to relieve merit in distress, will incline you...
Page 101 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Page xiv - 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 address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...