The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... obtained his degree at last by special fa- vour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . • Mr. Sheridan , in his life of Swift , observes , that this account was really written by the dean , and now exists in his own ...
... obtained his degree at last by special fa- vour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . • Mr. Sheridan , in his life of Swift , observes , that this account was really written by the dean , and now exists in his own ...
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... obtained the prebend of Kil- root in Conner , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to pro- cure him English preferment in ...
... obtained the prebend of Kil- root in Conner , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to pro- cure him English preferment in ...
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... obtained , from king William , a pro- mise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift dedicated to the king the posthumous works with which he was intrusted ...
... obtained , from king William , a pro- mise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift dedicated to the king the posthumous works with which he was intrusted ...
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... obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might re- concile lord Oxford and lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which ...
... obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might re- concile lord Oxford and lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which ...
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... obtained a pa- tent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very inconvenient and embarrassing scar- city of copper coin ; so that it ...
... obtained a pa- tent , empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very inconvenient and embarrassing scar- city of copper coin ; so that it ...
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Стр. 80 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Стр. 127 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted...
Стр. 123 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Стр. 117 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Стр. 160 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. These clouds which he perceived gathering on his intellects, he endeavoured to disperse by travel, and passed into France : but found himself constrained to yield to his malady, and returned.
Стр. 165 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Стр. 50 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Стр. 226 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Стр. 221 - ... men are very prone to believe what they do not understand; fourthly, they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it...
Стр. 66 - This gave Mr. Pope the thought that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since, to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.