The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... English poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they contributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well arranged in his ...
... English poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they contributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well arranged in his ...
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... English poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very tedious or difficult . " My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an ...
... English poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very tedious or difficult . " My purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an ...
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... English Poets , by , & c . The English Poets , biographically and critically considered , by Sam . Johnson . Let Mr. Nichols take his choice , or make another to his mind . May , 1781 . " You somehow forgot the advertisement for the new ...
... English Poets , by , & c . The English Poets , biographically and critically considered , by Sam . Johnson . Let Mr. Nichols take his choice , or make another to his mind . May , 1781 . " You somehow forgot the advertisement for the new ...
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... English literary history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed , his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his ...
... English literary history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed , his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his ...
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... English poetry ; and quotes this apposite illustration of it by an ingenious critic , " that it seems to be verse only to the eye . The gentleman whom he thus characterises is ( as he told Mr. Steward ) Mr. Lock , of Norbury Park , in ...
... English poetry ; and quotes this apposite illustration of it by an ingenious critic , " that it seems to be verse only to the eye . The gentleman whom he thus characterises is ( as he told Mr. Steward ) Mr. Lock , of Norbury Park , in ...
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Page 306 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 9 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Page 222 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 51 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 59 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humor, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.