The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5J. Murray, 1831 |
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... active kindnesses , and with Mac- bean ( who seems to have been the survivor of his earliest friends ) he continued in the kindest intercourse to his last hour.-ED. ] The another . " JOHNSON . " Don't think so 48 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
... active kindnesses , and with Mac- bean ( who seems to have been the survivor of his earliest friends ) he continued in the kindest intercourse to his last hour.-ED. ] The another . " JOHNSON . " Don't think so 48 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
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... continued , have not nearly the effect which they formerly had . Magistrates , both in London and elsewhere , have , I am afraid , in this had too much regard to their own ease . Of Dr. Hurd , Bishop of Worcester , Johnson said 1 The ...
... continued , have not nearly the effect which they formerly had . Magistrates , both in London and elsewhere , have , I am afraid , in this had too much regard to their own ease . Of Dr. Hurd , Bishop of Worcester , Johnson said 1 The ...
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... continued to write his name thus , after he came to London . His verses prefixed to the second edition of Thomson's Winter ' are so subscribed , and so are his Letters written in London , and pub- lished a few years ago in The European ...
... continued to write his name thus , after he came to London . His verses prefixed to the second edition of Thomson's Winter ' are so subscribed , and so are his Letters written in London , and pub- lished a few years ago in The European ...
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... continued he , I look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood . I am not an uncandid , nor am I a severe man . I some- times say more than I mean , in jest ; and people are apt to believe me serious : however , I am more candid ...
... continued he , I look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood . I am not an uncandid , nor am I a severe man . I some- times say more than I mean , in jest ; and people are apt to believe me serious : however , I am more candid ...
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... continued the transverse from the upright part with the same paste . " You have doubtless seen Stonehenge ; and if you have not , I should think it a hard task to make an adequate description . " It is in my opinion to be referred to ...
... continued the transverse from the upright part with the same paste . " You have doubtless seen Stonehenge ; and if you have not , I should think it a hard task to make an adequate description . " It is in my opinion to be referred to ...
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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.