The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5J. Murray, 1831 |
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... hand so liberal in distri- buting , I hope nobody will envy the power of acquiring . I am , dear sir , your obliged and most humble servant , 66 SAM . JOHNSON . " The following letters were written at this time by Johnson to Miss ...
... hand so liberal in distri- buting , I hope nobody will envy the power of acquiring . I am , dear sir , your obliged and most humble servant , 66 SAM . JOHNSON . " The following letters were written at this time by Johnson to Miss ...
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... hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to time whatever happens ; and I hope I need not ...
... hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to time whatever happens ; and I hope I need not ...
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... hand , but was chill ; having fasted yesterday , I was hungry , and dined freely , then slept a little , and drank tea ; then took candles , and wrote to Aston and Lucy , then went on with Lawrence , of which little remains . I prayed ...
... hand , but was chill ; having fasted yesterday , I was hungry , and dined freely , then slept a little , and drank tea ; then took candles , and wrote to Aston and Lucy , then went on with Lawrence , of which little remains . I prayed ...
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... hand , and , finding that I bore it well , let the vein run on . From that time I have mended , and hope I am now well . I went yes- terday to church without inconvenience , and hope to go to- morrow . " Here are great changes in the ...
... hand , and , finding that I bore it well , let the vein run on . From that time I have mended , and hope I am now well . I went yes- terday to church without inconvenience , and hope to go to- morrow . " Here are great changes in the ...
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... hand at parting , I was rather down . When I came hither , I ate my dinner well , but was so harassed by the cough , that Mr. Strahan said , it was an extremity which he could not have believed without the sensible and true avouch ' of ...
... hand at parting , I was rather down . When I came hither , I ate my dinner well , but was so harassed by the cough , that Mr. Strahan said , it was an extremity which he could not have believed without the sensible and true avouch ' of ...
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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.