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... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living ...
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... expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too ...
... expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too ...
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... much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy my · Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book Etat . 20. ] DR . JOHNSON . 39.
... much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy my · Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book Etat . 20. ] DR . JOHNSON . 39.
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James Boswell Edmond Malone. 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 ...
James Boswell Edmond Malone. 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 ...
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... expect it . Your late offert gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper , I have other designs to impart , if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of ...
... expect it . Your late offert gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper , I have other designs to impart , if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of ...
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Pàgina 177 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pàgina 206 - ... Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...
Pàgina 152 - Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Pàgina 103 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Pàgina 210 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Pàgina 157 - a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Pàgina 49 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pàgina 65 - Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance, with swelled cheeks, of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour.
Pàgina 40 - 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'.
Pàgina 44 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.