The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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Page 76
... honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the people ; for you will obferve , there is no man who works at any particular trade , but you may know him from his appearance to do fo . One part or other of his body ...
... honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the people ; for you will obferve , there is no man who works at any particular trade , but you may know him from his appearance to do fo . One part or other of his body ...
Page 94
... honour to pro- pofe me , and Beauclerk was very zealous for me . Goldfmith being mentioned ; JOHNSON , " It is amazing how little Goldfmith knows . He feldom 2 comes comes where he is not more ignorant than any one 94 THE LIFE OF.
... honour to pro- pofe me , and Beauclerk was very zealous for me . Goldfmith being mentioned ; JOHNSON , " It is amazing how little Goldfmith knows . He feldom 2 comes comes where he is not more ignorant than any one 94 THE LIFE OF.
Page 98
... honoured by having his mo- nument first erected there . Somebody fuggested Pope . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholick , I would not have his to be firft . I think Milton's rather fhould have the pre- cedence . I think ...
... honoured by having his mo- nument first erected there . Somebody fuggested Pope . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholick , I would not have his to be firft . I think Milton's rather fhould have the pre- cedence . I think ...
Page 118
... honour and glory , world without end , Amen ' . " BOSWELL . " Pray , Mr. Dilly , how does Dr. Leland's Hiftory of Ireland ' fell ? " JOHNSON . ( bursting forth with a generous indignation , ) " The Irish are in a most unnatural state ...
... honour and glory , world without end , Amen ' . " BOSWELL . " Pray , Mr. Dilly , how does Dr. Leland's Hiftory of Ireland ' fell ? " JOHNSON . ( bursting forth with a generous indignation , ) " The Irish are in a most unnatural state ...
Page 120
... honour of un- questionable fuperiority . " Sir , ( faid he , ) you are for making a monarchy of what fhould be a re- publick . " He was still more mortified , when talking in a company with fluent vivacity , and , as he flattered ...
... honour of un- questionable fuperiority . " Sir , ( faid he , ) you are for making a monarchy of what fhould be a re- publick . " He was still more mortified , when talking in a company with fluent vivacity , and , as he flattered ...
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