Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1884 - 432 pages |
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... Garrick to him one day , Why did not you make me a tory , when we lived so much together , you love to make people tories ? " Why ( says Johnson , pulling a heap of halfpence from his pocket ) , did not the king make these guineas ...
... Garrick to him one day , Why did not you make me a tory , when we lived so much together , you love to make people tories ? " Why ( says Johnson , pulling a heap of halfpence from his pocket ) , did not the king make these guineas ...
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... Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher , he meant to represent Mr. Coulson , a mathematician ...
... Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher , he meant to represent Mr. Coulson , a mathematician ...
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... Garrick produced a passage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a ...
... Garrick produced a passage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a ...
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... Garrick told a better , for he said that in their young days , when some strolling players came to Litchfield , our friend had fixed his place upon the stage , and got himself a chair accordingly ; which leaving for a few minutes , he ...
... Garrick told a better , for he said that in their young days , when some strolling players came to Litchfield , our friend had fixed his place upon the stage , and got himself a chair accordingly ; which leaving for a few minutes , he ...
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... Garrick's were preferred to them . " The hand of him here torpid lies , That drew th ' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th ' attentive eyes , That saw the manners in the face . " Mr. Hogarth , among the variety of ...
... Garrick's were preferred to them . " The hand of him here torpid lies , That drew th ' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th ' attentive eyes , That saw the manners in the face . " Mr. Hogarth , among the variety of ...
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Page 387 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 31 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 25 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 359 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 406 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Page 354 - The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 367 - 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...
Page 389 - I have had no long time to brood hopes, and have not rioted in imaginary opulence, this cold reception has been scarce a disappointment; and from your Lordship's kindness I have received a benefit which only men like you are able to bestow. I shall now live mihi carior, with a higher opinion of my own merit. " I am, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obliged, " most grateful, " and most humble servant, "SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 367 - 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 143 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.