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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... JOHN- SON . " No , Sir ; oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments , and putting better in their place . " WILKES . “ But this does not move the passions . " JOHN- SON : ' He must be a weak man who is to be so ...
... JOHN- SON . " No , Sir ; oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments , and putting better in their place . " WILKES . “ But this does not move the passions . " JOHN- SON : ' He must be a weak man who is to be so ...
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... Sir , " said he , " he was too well bred a man not to be cheerful in company ; but he was gloomy when alone . He never was cheerful after my mother's death , and he had met with many disappointments . " Dr. John- son observed to me ...
... Sir , " said he , " he was too well bred a man not to be cheerful in company ; but he was gloomy when alone . He never was cheerful after my mother's death , and he had met with many disappointments . " Dr. John- son observed to me ...
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... Sir John ) , the member for Caithness , ' to his acquaintance ; and informed him in another that my wife had been again affected with alarming symptoms of illness . In 1782 his complaints increased , and the history of his life this ...
... Sir John ) , the member for Caithness , ' to his acquaintance ; and informed him in another that my wife had been again affected with alarming symptoms of illness . In 1782 his complaints increased , and the history of his life this ...
Page 88
... Sir John Hawkins ' Life of Dr. Johnson " letter'd ignorance " is printed . 2 Johnson repeated this line to me thus : - " And labour steals an hour to die . " But he afterwards altered it to the present reading . of disease and death ...
... Sir John Hawkins ' Life of Dr. Johnson " letter'd ignorance " is printed . 2 Johnson repeated this line to me thus : - " And labour steals an hour to die . " But he afterwards altered it to the present reading . of disease and death ...
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... Sir , " said Johnson , " I should like to stay here four- and - twenty hours . We see here how our ancestors lived . " That his curiosity was still unabated appears from two letters to Mr. John Nichols , of the 10th and 20th of October ...
... Sir , " said Johnson , " I should like to stay here four- and - twenty hours . We see here how our ancestors lived . " That his curiosity was still unabated appears from two letters to Mr. John Nichols , of the 10th and 20th of October ...
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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.