The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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Page xxiv
... talk so various , so loose , and so extensive ; but he has endeavoured to alleviate it by occasional references to the different places where the same subject is discussed , and by a copious , and he trusts , satisfactory index . As ...
... talk so various , so loose , and so extensive ; but he has endeavoured to alleviate it by occasional references to the different places where the same subject is discussed , and by a copious , and he trusts , satisfactory index . As ...
Page xxvi
... talk or his literary conversations only that have been pub- lished : all his most private and most trifling cor- respondence all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own ...
... talk or his literary conversations only that have been pub- lished : all his most private and most trifling cor- respondence all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own ...
Page xxvii
... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extraordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way , almost ...
... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extraordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way , almost ...
Page xxviii
... Talk , Swift's Journal , and Spence's Anecdotes , only tan- talise our curiosity and excite our regret that there was no Boswell to preserve the conversation and illustrate the life and times of Addison , of Swift him- self , of Milton ...
... Talk , Swift's Journal , and Spence's Anecdotes , only tan- talise our curiosity and excite our regret that there was no Boswell to preserve the conversation and illustrate the life and times of Addison , of Swift him- self , of Milton ...
Page xl
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
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Page 250 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 250 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Page 280 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Page 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
Page 38 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 298 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
Page 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?