The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 1A. V. Blake, 1842 |
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... live in peace Johnson attended every night behind the scenes . with mankind , and in a temper to do good offices , Conceiving that his character as an author re- was the most essential part of our duty . That no- quired some ornament ...
... live in peace Johnson attended every night behind the scenes . with mankind , and in a temper to do good offices , Conceiving that his character as an author re- was the most essential part of our duty . That no- quired some ornament ...
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... lives . By Fortune's frown and penury of mind . Whate'er I plan , I feel my powers confiued I boast no knowledge ... live in every age and every clime , Record the Chiefs , who propt their Country's cause ; Who founded Empires , and ...
... lives . By Fortune's frown and penury of mind . Whate'er I plan , I feel my powers confiued I boast no knowledge ... live in every age and every clime , Record the Chiefs , who propt their Country's cause ; Who founded Empires , and ...
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... Lives of the are you come . " Johnson could not wait for that Poets . The first publication was in 1779 , and half century , and therefore mentioned things as the whole was completed in 1781. In a memo- he found them . If in any thing ...
... Lives of the are you come . " Johnson could not wait for that Poets . The first publication was in 1779 , and half century , and therefore mentioned things as the whole was completed in 1781. In a memo- he found them . If in any thing ...
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... Lives of the Poets , a work undertaken at the age of seventy , yet the most brilliant , and certainly the most popular , of all our Author's writings . For this perform- ance he needed little preparation . Attentive always to the ...
... Lives of the Poets , a work undertaken at the age of seventy , yet the most brilliant , and certainly the most popular , of all our Author's writings . For this perform- ance he needed little preparation . Attentive always to the ...
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... live with ease ; and he found an body of ethics ; the observations on life and man - early patron in Lord Somers . He depended , ners are acute and instructive ; and the papers , however , more upon a fine taste than the vigour ...
... live with ease ; and he found an body of ethics ; the observations on life and man - early patron in Lord Somers . He depended , ners are acute and instructive ; and the papers , however , more upon a fine taste than the vigour ...
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Page xviii - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page xviii - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. ' When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page xviii - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Page 106 - Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense : and...
Page 113 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered . through the wild without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 112 - Paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices ; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring : all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Page vii - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 113 - In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch. We thus enter the bowers of ease, and repose in the shades of security. Here the heart softens, and vigilance...
Page 158 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Page xxvi - After a long and not inattentive observation of mankind, the generosity of your Lordship's offer raises in me not less wonder than gratitude. Bounty, so liberally bestowed, I should gladly receive if my condition made it necessary ; for to such a mind who would not be proud to own his obligations ? But it has pleased God to restore me to so great a measure of health, that if I should now appropriate so much of a fortune destined to do good, I could not escape from myself the charge of advancing...