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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... admirable work , I have an opportunity of observing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck off such glowing composition . He may be assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress with " love at first sight ...
... admirable work , I have an opportunity of observing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck off such glowing composition . He may be assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress with " love at first sight ...
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... admirable than even his writings , however ex- cellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a ...
... admirable than even his writings , however ex- cellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a ...
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... admiration of 1 Mr. Chalmers here records a curious literary anecdote - that when a new and enlarged edition of the Lives of the Poets was published in 1783 , Mr. Nichols , in justice to the purchasers of the preceding editions ...
... admiration of 1 Mr. Chalmers here records a curious literary anecdote - that when a new and enlarged edition of the Lives of the Poets was published in 1783 , Mr. Nichols , in justice to the purchasers of the preceding editions ...
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... admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar propriety as the correspondent of Warren Hastings ! a man whose ... admiration to him , I should certainly not withhold it a moment ' when it is not possible 1 From this disreputable class ...
... admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar propriety as the correspondent of Warren Hastings ! a man whose ... admiration to him , I should certainly not withhold it a moment ' when it is not possible 1 From this disreputable class ...
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... admirable picture of a man . ' 1 Shakspeare makes Hamlet thus describe his father : - " See what a grace was seated on his brow ; Hyperion's curls , the front of Jove himself , An eye like Mars , to threaten and command ; A station like ...
... admirable picture of a man . ' 1 Shakspeare makes Hamlet thus describe his father : - " See what a grace was seated on his brow ; Hyperion's curls , the front of Jove himself , An eye like Mars , to threaten and command ; A station like ...
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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.