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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Pàgina viii
... writing . Bet Flint . Oratory . Beauclerk's Library . - English Sermons . - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Monckton . - Talking for Victory . - -- . Miss A Cui Bono Man . - " Heroic Epistle . " - Lord Carlisle's Poems . — Dr. Barnard ...
... writing . Bet Flint . Oratory . Beauclerk's Library . - English Sermons . - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Monckton . - Talking for Victory . - -- . Miss A Cui Bono Man . - " Heroic Epistle . " - Lord Carlisle's Poems . — Dr. Barnard ...
Pàgina 1
... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in Pope's VOL . VIII ...
... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in Pope's VOL . VIII ...
Pàgina 2
... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more than a few pages , as he had originally in- tended ( 1 ) , he produced an ample , rich , and most · And Homer which are printed in the ...
... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more than a few pages , as he had originally in- tended ( 1 ) , he produced an ample , rich , and most · And Homer which are printed in the ...
Pàgina 5
... 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 calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her ...
... 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 calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her ...
Pàgina 11
... writes . ( 3 ) One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob- served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked ...
... writes . ( 3 ) One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob- served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked ...
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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