The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... editor was assured , from what he thought good authority , that Mr. Damer was here alluded to , he has since reason to suppose that another and more respectable name was meant , which , however , without more certainty , he does not ...
... editor was assured , from what he thought good authority , that Mr. Damer was here alluded to , he has since reason to suppose that another and more respectable name was meant , which , however , without more certainty , he does not ...
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... editor can discover . - ED . ] 2 As some of my readers may be gratified by reading the progress of this little composition , I shall insert it from my notes . " When Dr. Johnson and I were sitting tête - à - tête at the Mitre tavern ...
... editor can discover . - ED . ] 2 As some of my readers may be gratified by reading the progress of this little composition , I shall insert it from my notes . " When Dr. Johnson and I were sitting tête - à - tête at the Mitre tavern ...
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... a razor . [ The editor was once present when a flower - pot of Seve china , of about the size that would hold a pint of water , was sold by auction for 701.-ED. ] We dined with Dr. Butter ' , whose lady is 1777. - ÆTAT . 68 . 11.
... a razor . [ The editor was once present when a flower - pot of Seve china , of about the size that would hold a pint of water , was sold by auction for 701.-ED. ] We dined with Dr. Butter ' , whose lady is 1777. - ÆTAT . 68 . 11.
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... editor that it was Johnson himself who had made this experiment ; but there is not the least doubt of the fact . The river sinks suddenly into the earth behind a hill above the valley , and bursts out again in the same direction , and ...
... editor that it was Johnson himself who had made this experiment ; but there is not the least doubt of the fact . The river sinks suddenly into the earth behind a hill above the valley , and bursts out again in the same direction , and ...
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... editor notices these trifles to show the animus , the spirit in which Mr. Boswell is prone to distort Mrs. Thrale's character . - ED . ] 2 The first edition was in 1492. Between that period and 1792 , according to this account , there ...
... editor notices these trifles to show the animus , the spirit in which Mr. Boswell is prone to distort Mrs. Thrale's character . - ED . ] 2 The first edition was in 1492. Between that period and 1792 , according to this account , there ...
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Page 428 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 476 - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
Page 124 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Page 29 - find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 477 - ... it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 440 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 103 - We have no sermons addressed to the passions that are good for any thing; if you mean that kind of eloquence." A CLERGYMAN, (whose name I do not recollect.) " Were not Dodd's sermons addressed to the" passions?" JOHNSON. "They were nothing, sir, be they addressed to what they may.
Page 224 - O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head.
Page 476 - Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...
Page 464 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.