The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5J. Murray, 1831 - Authors, English |
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... history of his life this year is little more than a mournful recital of the variations of his illness , in the midst of which , however , it will appear from his letters that the powers of his mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO ...
... history of his life this year is little more than a mournful recital of the variations of his illness , in the midst of which , however , it will appear from his letters that the powers of his mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO ...
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... history is mournful . The spring of last year deprived me of Thrale , a man whose eye for fifteen years had scarcely been turned upon me but with respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will ...
... history is mournful . The spring of last year deprived me of Thrale , a man whose eye for fifteen years had scarcely been turned upon me but with respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will ...
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... history of your life since your accession to your estate ; -how many houses , how many cows , how much land in your own hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a ...
... history of your life since your accession to your estate ; -how many houses , how many cows , how much land in your own hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a ...
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... history for telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE . [ There is a popular superstition that this inheritance is ac ...
... history for telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE . [ There is a popular superstition that this inheritance is ac ...
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... History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomę Wilson STB ecclesię de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxdow insigni - felici juvenum institutori . " Mr. Wilson died in 1813 , aged sixty- sever . - J . H. MARKLAND ] him his ...
... History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomę Wilson STB ecclesię de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxdow insigni - felici juvenum institutori . " Mr. Wilson died in 1813 , aged sixty- sever . - J . H. MARKLAND ] him his ...
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Page 177 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 19 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no...
Page 108 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ?
Page 431 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Page 18 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
Page 249 - Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.
Page 262 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known, teach me by thy Holy Spirit, to withdraw my mind from unprofitable and dangerous enquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and doubts impossible to be solved.
Page 287 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 176 - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?" JOHNSON. "A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk; but I do not despair." MRS. ADAMS. " You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
Page 265 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault.