Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography of a great man of letters ...
... given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography of a great man of letters ...
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... given a reference . While the minute examination that I have so often had to make of Boswell's narrative has done nothing but strengthen my trust in his statements and my admiration of his laborious truthfulness , yet in one respect I ...
... given a reference . While the minute examination that I have so often had to make of Boswell's narrative has done nothing but strengthen my trust in his statements and my admiration of his laborious truthfulness , yet in one respect I ...
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... given them in the narrow limits of a foot - note . In the twelve pages of the essay on Johnson's Debates in Parliament I have com- ' Post , vi . xxxii . Post , iii . 525 . Post , vi . xxii . • Post , iv . 9 , n . 5 . ' Post , i . 566 ...
... given them in the narrow limits of a foot - note . In the twelve pages of the essay on Johnson's Debates in Parliament I have com- ' Post , vi . xxxii . Post , iii . 525 . Post , vi . xxii . • Post , iv . 9 , n . 5 . ' Post , i . 566 ...
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... given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's spelling in accordance with the wish that he expressed in the preface to ...
... given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's spelling in accordance with the wish that he expressed in the preface to ...
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... given to the world in two large volumes , it is not right that the letters of his far greater friend should be left scat- tered and almost neglected . ' He that sees before him to his third dinner , ' says Johnson , has a long prospect ...
... given to the world in two large volumes , it is not right that the letters of his far greater friend should be left scat- tered and almost neglected . ' He that sees before him to his third dinner , ' says Johnson , has a long prospect ...
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Page 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 365 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Page 304 - 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. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 304 - 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Page 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.