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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... collection of biography , and such principles and illustra- tions of criticism , as , if digested and arranged in one system , by some modern Aristotle or Longinus , might form a code upon that subject , such as no other nation can show ...
... collection of biography , and such principles and illustra- tions of criticism , as , if digested and arranged in one system , by some modern Aristotle or Longinus , might form a code upon that subject , such as no other nation can show ...
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... Collection of their respective Works . " After an able and " fond , though not undistinguishing , " consideration of War- burton's character , he says , - " In two immortal works , Johnson has stood forth in the foremost rank of his ...
... Collection of their respective Works . " After an able and " fond , though not undistinguishing , " consideration of War- burton's character , he says , - " In two immortal works , Johnson has stood forth in the foremost rank of his ...
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... mis- chievous . " But although we have no collection of Pope's sayings , it is not therefore to be concluded , that he was not agreeable in social intercourse ; for Johnson has been heard to ÆT . 72 . 13 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... mis- chievous . " But although we have no collection of Pope's sayings , it is not therefore to be concluded , that he was not agreeable in social intercourse ; for Johnson has been heard to ÆT . 72 . 13 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... collection , made by the Reverend Mr. Joseph Spence , containing a number of particulars concerning eminent men . To each anecdote is marked the name of the person on whose authority it is mentioned . This valua- ble collection is the ...
... collection , made by the Reverend Mr. Joseph Spence , containing a number of particulars concerning eminent men . To each anecdote is marked the name of the person on whose authority it is mentioned . This valua- ble collection is the ...
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... collected by me . " I must put you right , Sir , " said I ; " for I am very exact in authenticity . You could not see folio volumes , for I have none : you might have seen some in quarto and octavo . This is an inattention which one ...
... collected by me . " I must put you right , Sir , " said I ; " for I am very exact in authenticity . You could not see folio volumes , for I have none : you might have seen some in quarto and octavo . This is an inattention which one ...
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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.