The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - Всего страниц: 602 |
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... respect- ing this fociety : All perfons taking out policies for infurance , must pay two fhillings and fix - pence per quarter ; and , besides their insurance , fhall have a book , called the Hiftorical Regifter , left every quarter at ...
... respect- ing this fociety : All perfons taking out policies for infurance , must pay two fhillings and fix - pence per quarter ; and , besides their insurance , fhall have a book , called the Hiftorical Regifter , left every quarter at ...
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... respecting the hiftory of Johnson and Garrick , at this period : the one wants the date of the month , the other that of the year ; and though , in the order of their pub- lication , the one immediately follows the other , there must ...
... respecting the hiftory of Johnson and Garrick , at this period : the one wants the date of the month , the other that of the year ; and though , in the order of their pub- lication , the one immediately follows the other , there must ...
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... respect valuable , is curious , in that it gives to view a character felf - formed , as owing nothing to parental nurture , and fcarce any thing to moral tuition , and defcribes a mind , in which , as in a ne- glected garden , weeds ...
... respect valuable , is curious , in that it gives to view a character felf - formed , as owing nothing to parental nurture , and fcarce any thing to moral tuition , and defcribes a mind , in which , as in a ne- glected garden , weeds ...
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... respects this country , or the time when it was written , are evi- dently drawn from thofe weekly publications , which , to answer the view of a malevolent faction , first created , and for fome years fupported , a diftinction between ...
... respects this country , or the time when it was written , are evi- dently drawn from thofe weekly publications , which , to answer the view of a malevolent faction , first created , and for fome years fupported , a diftinction between ...
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... respecting him that have come to my own knowledge , and may ferve to excul- pate him , in fome degree , from the charge of being an enemy to the conftitution or the interefts of this country . When he first came into power , he found it ...
... respecting him that have come to my own knowledge , and may ferve to excul- pate him , in fome degree , from the charge of being an enemy to the conftitution or the interefts of this country . When he first came into power , he found it ...
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Стр. 196 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Стр. 34 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
Стр. 184 - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
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Стр. 168 - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
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