The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Volum 81835 |
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... person [ Bishop Hurd ] respectable by his talents , his learning , his station , and his age , which were published a great many years ago , and have since , it is said , been silently given up by their author . But when it is ...
... person [ Bishop Hurd ] respectable by his talents , his learning , his station , and his age , which were published a great many years ago , and have since , it is said , been silently given up by their author . But when it is ...
Pàgina 19
... person of high rank that took particular notice of me in the way most flattering to a young man , fondly ambitious of being distinguished for his literary talents ; and by the honour of his encouragement made me think well of myself ...
... person of high rank that took particular notice of me in the way most flattering to a young man , fondly ambitious of being distinguished for his literary talents ; and by the honour of his encouragement made me think well of myself ...
Pàgina 22
... persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage , who lived in intimacy with Steele , and who mentioned , that Steele told him the ...
... persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage , who lived in intimacy with Steele , and who mentioned , that Steele told him the ...
Pàgina 27
... person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a susceptible mind ; and that Johnson was capable of feeling the most delicate and disinterested attachment appears from the following letter , which is ...
... person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a susceptible mind ; and that Johnson was capable of feeling the most delicate and disinterested attachment appears from the following letter , which is ...
Pàgina 28
... person , of which the excellence is not so apparent : " TO MISS BOOTHBY . " January , 1755 . LETTER 391 . " DEAREST MADAM , - Though I am afraid your illness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot ...
... person , of which the excellence is not so apparent : " TO MISS BOOTHBY . " January , 1755 . LETTER 391 . " DEAREST MADAM , - Though I am afraid your illness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance admirable afterwards answered antè appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop Brocklesby Burke Burney called character church club consider conversation curious DEAR SIR death desire died dined dropsy eminent entertained expressed favour Francis Barber gentleman give glad happy Hebrides honour Hoole hope JAMES BOSWELL Johnson kind lady Langton learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Thurlow lordship LUCY PORTER Lusiad Madam manner mentioned merit mind Miss never obliged observed occasion once opinion perhaps person physicians pleased pleasure poet pounds praise prayers pretty woman published recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told verses Whig Wilkes William wish wonder write written wrote young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 394 - 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 stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Pàgina 81 - ... 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...
Pàgina 120 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine. As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See LEVETT to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Pàgina 44 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; 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...
Pàgina 270 - Here was exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's Comedies : ' There is no arguing with Johnson ; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it...
Pàgina 67 - 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.
Pàgina 383 - Chambers, or of myself, gave the account which I now transmit to you in his own hand ; being willing that of so great a work the history should be known, and that each writer should receive his due proportion of praise from posterity. I recommend to you to preserve this scrap of literary intelligence in Mr. Swinton's own hand, or to deposit it in the Museum, that the veracity of this account may never be doubted. I am, Sir, Your most humble servant, Dec. 6, 1784. SAM : JOHNSON.
Pàgina 84 - I am sure (said she) they have affected me" — " Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about,) that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness ; " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Pàgina 279 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Pàgina 72 - ... and myself. We found ourselves very elegantly entertained at her house in the Adelphi, where I have passed many a pleasing hour with him