The life of Dr. Samuel JohnsonJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... characters of a moralift , a philofopher , and a poet . The time of his continuance at Oxford is divifible into two ... character may be seen in the volume above cited . ber , 1729 , when , as appears by a 2 ber , DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ...
... characters of a moralift , a philofopher , and a poet . The time of his continuance at Oxford is divifible into two ... character may be seen in the volume above cited . ber , 1729 , when , as appears by a 2 ber , DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ...
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... character of the former of those perfons in his lives of the poets , of whom he thus fpeaks : He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He ...
... character of the former of those perfons in his lives of the poets , of whom he thus fpeaks : He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He ...
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... character : the order and difcipline of a college life , the reading the best authors , the attendance on public exercises , the early calls to prayer , the frequent in- ftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious ...
... character : the order and difcipline of a college life , the reading the best authors , the attendance on public exercises , the early calls to prayer , the frequent in- ftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious ...
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... character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure . ' The benevolent perfon ...
... character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure . ' The benevolent perfon ...
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... character of urbanity . Judge of his want of them by this question , which he once put to an author : • Mr. , I hear you have just published a pam- phlet , and am told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the fubject of mufic ...
... character of urbanity . Judge of his want of them by this question , which he once put to an author : • Mr. , I hear you have just published a pam- phlet , and am told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the fubject of mufic ...
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Стр. 127 - I have been accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and an adoption of the opinions and language of another man. In the first sense, sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves only to be mentioned that it may be despised.
Стр. 344 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Стр. 155 - ... the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
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Стр. 555 - 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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