The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
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... never yet saw translated : " Meo sum pauper in ære . " At his coming to town , no man was more sur- rounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
... never yet saw translated : " Meo sum pauper in ære . " At his coming to town , no man was more sur- rounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
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... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
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... has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of Of his Pindar mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never SMIT H. 21.
... has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of Of his Pindar mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never SMIT H. 21.
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... never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith * ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who at- tended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by Dr. Burton , of Eton , a man ...
... never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith * ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who at- tended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by Dr. Burton , of Eton , a man ...
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Página 279 - ... distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind is a misery.
Página 197 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 26 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then...
Página 26 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 179 - He had infused into it much knowledge, and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity.
Página 402 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 106 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — 1672-1719 DEATH AND CHARACTER 347 in which he alludes, as he told Dr.
Página 197 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Página 363 - On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
Página 110 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.