The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 41821 |
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... entertaining to his friends in the evening , even when it was perceived that with difficulty he kept his eyes open ; and then seemed to go to rest with no other purpose than the refreshing and enabling him with more vigour and ...
... entertaining to his friends in the evening , even when it was perceived that with difficulty he kept his eyes open ; and then seemed to go to rest with no other purpose than the refreshing and enabling him with more vigour and ...
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... entertaining volume upon this plan , De rebus ad eum pertinentibus . ' In the fourth class we have the journalists , temporal and spiritual : Elias Ashmole , William Lilly , George Whitefield , John Wesley , and a thousand other old ...
... entertaining volume upon this plan , De rebus ad eum pertinentibus . ' In the fourth class we have the journalists , temporal and spiritual : Elias Ashmole , William Lilly , George Whitefield , John Wesley , and a thousand other old ...
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... entertained us with several characteristical portraits ; I regret that any of them escaped my retention and diligence . I found from experience , that to collect my friend's conversation so as to exhibit it with any degree of its ...
... entertained us with several characteristical portraits ; I regret that any of them escaped my retention and diligence . I found from experience , that to collect my friend's conversation so as to exhibit it with any degree of its ...
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... entertaining the company . He , indeed , well deserves his hire . " 66 66 66 6 Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth - day Odes , a long time before it was wanted . I objected very freely to several passages . Cibber ...
... entertaining the company . He , indeed , well deserves his hire . " 66 66 66 6 Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth - day Odes , a long time before it was wanted . I objected very freely to several passages . Cibber ...
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... entertained themselves and the company with a great number of tunes on the fiddle . Johnson de- sired to have " Let ambition fire thy mind " played over again , and appeared to give a patient attention to it ; though he owned to me that ...
... entertained themselves and the company with a great number of tunes on the fiddle . Johnson de- sired to have " Let ambition fire thy mind " played over again , and appeared to give a patient attention to it ; though he owned to me that ...
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Page 382 - ... 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 look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 14 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Page 381 - 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 sound...
Page 316 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 15 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 369 - 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.
Page 373 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 351 - 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 262 - As I went by, the Protestants were plundering the Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred ; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day.
Page 121 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.