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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... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more 1 Prayers and Meditations , p . 184. First Edit . 2 Ibid . , p . 168 . than a few pages , as he had originally intended IV . B.
... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more 1 Prayers and Meditations , p . 184. First Edit . 2 Ibid . , p . 168 . than a few pages , as he had originally intended IV . B.
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... writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a ... writing is an almost perfect specimen of caligraphy , as beautiful , I think , as I ever saw ; and this power ...
... writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a ... writing is an almost perfect specimen of caligraphy , as beautiful , I think , as I ever saw ; and this power ...
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... writer of the present work has felt himself much impressed , and to whose virtues a common friend , who has known ... writes . 2 One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His ...
... writer of the present work has felt himself much impressed , and to whose virtues a common friend , who has known ... writes . 2 One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His ...
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... write the next with [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his ...
... write the next with [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his ...
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... write . " Domestic [ manners ] scenes . " In his Life of PARNELL , I wonder that Johnson omitted to insert an epitaph which he had long before composed for that amiable man , without ever writing it down , but which he was so good as ...
... write . " Domestic [ manners ] scenes . " In his Life of PARNELL , I wonder that Johnson omitted to insert an epitaph which he had long before composed for that amiable man , without ever writing it down , but which he was so good as ...
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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.