The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.L. Hansard, 1806 |
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... king- doms has any books at all , has Johnson . " In this edition , I have taken the liberty to omit " Cebes ' Table , or the Picture of Human Life . " By what means it came to be printed among Dr. Johnfon's productions , I know not ...
... king- doms has any books at all , has Johnson . " In this edition , I have taken the liberty to omit " Cebes ' Table , or the Picture of Human Life . " By what means it came to be printed among Dr. Johnfon's productions , I know not ...
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... king of fish moves on before , This humble friend attends from fhore to fhore ; " With eye ftill earnest , and with bill inclin❜d , " He picks up what his patron drops hehind , " With those choice cates his palate to regale , " And is ...
... king of fish moves on before , This humble friend attends from fhore to fhore ; " With eye ftill earnest , and with bill inclin❜d , " He picks up what his patron drops hehind , " With those choice cates his palate to regale , " And is ...
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... King's Evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch ; and accordingly Mrs. Johnfon prefented her fon , when two years old , before Queen Anne , who , for the first time , performed that office , and ...
... King's Evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch ; and accordingly Mrs. Johnfon prefented her fon , when two years old , before Queen Anne , who , for the first time , performed that office , and ...
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... king of Portugal , Viceroy of the Indies . They arrived at Goa ; and , in January 1624 , Father Lobo fet out on the miffion to Abyffi- nia . Two of the Jefuits , fent on the fame commiffion , were murdered in their attempt to penetrate ...
... king of Portugal , Viceroy of the Indies . They arrived at Goa ; and , in January 1624 , Father Lobo fet out on the miffion to Abyffi- nia . Two of the Jefuits , fent on the fame commiffion , were murdered in their attempt to penetrate ...
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... king . Fired with refentment , and willing to reap the profits of a grofs impofition , this man collected from feveral Latin poets , fuch as Mafenius the Jefuit , Staphorftius a Dutch divine , Beza , and others , all fuch paffages as ...
... king . Fired with refentment , and willing to reap the profits of a grofs impofition , this man collected from feveral Latin poets , fuch as Mafenius the Jefuit , Staphorftius a Dutch divine , Beza , and others , all fuch paffages as ...
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Página 76 - 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?
Página 76 - 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.
Página 212 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 12 - 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 rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Página 55 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by 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.
Página 353 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Página 340 - Lyce, in which he claims for this ancient personage as good a right to be assimilated to heaven, as nymphs whom other poets have flattered; he therefore ironically ascribes to her the attributes of the sky, in such stanzas as this: " Her teeth the night with darkness dies, She's starr'd with pimples o'er ; Her tongue like nimble lightning plies, And can with thunder roar.
Página 214 - Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end?
Página 76 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Página 75 - 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.