The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of Samuel JohnsonG. Dearborn, 1837 |
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... turn his wife's money to the best advantage , he pro jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of Litchfield , Such is the account of the Nile and ...
... turn his wife's money to the best advantage , he pro jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of Litchfield , Such is the account of the Nile and ...
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... turn out a fine tragedy writer . If it the several states of Europe ; till , fatigued at should be in your way , I doubt not but you will length with their legislative office , they began to be ready to recommend and assist your country ...
... turn out a fine tragedy writer . If it the several states of Europe ; till , fatigued at should be in your way , I doubt not but you will length with their legislative office , they began to be ready to recommend and assist your country ...
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... turn- ed with inward hostility against himself . His reflections on his own life and conduct were al- ways severe and , wishing to be immaculate , he destroyed his own peace by unnecessary scruples . He tells us , that when he surveyed ...
... turn- ed with inward hostility against himself . His reflections on his own life and conduct were al- ways severe and , wishing to be immaculate , he destroyed his own peace by unnecessary scruples . He tells us , that when he surveyed ...
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... turn , the collection would have been more miscellaneous , and by consequence more agreeable to the ge- nerality of readers . This he used to illustrate by repeating two beautiful stanzas from his own Ode to Cave , or Sylvanus Urban ...
... turn , the collection would have been more miscellaneous , and by consequence more agreeable to the ge- nerality of readers . This he used to illustrate by repeating two beautiful stanzas from his own Ode to Cave , or Sylvanus Urban ...
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... turn , the collection Iwould have been more miscellaneous , and , by consequence , more agreeable to the generality of readers . It is remarkable , that the pomp of diction , which has been objected to Johnson , was first assumed in the ...
... turn , the collection Iwould have been more miscellaneous , and , by consequence , more agreeable to the generality of readers . It is remarkable , that the pomp of diction , which has been objected to Johnson , was first assumed in the ...
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Page ix - 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 ix - 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 211 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Page 104 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 97 - We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original.
Page 104 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome *him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the bramble?, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 83 - I was surprised, after the civilities of my first reception, to find, instead of the leisure and tranquillity, which a rural life always promises, and, if well conducted, might always afford, a confused wildness of care, and a tumultuous hurry of diligence, by which every face was clouded, and every motion agitated.
Page viii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page vi - ... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his...
Page 213 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.