The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 1A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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Pagina i
... thing to light . What should be related , and what should not , has been published with- out distinction . Dicenda tacenda locuti ! Every thing that fell from him has been caught with eagerness by his admirers , who , as he says in one ...
... thing to light . What should be related , and what should not , has been published with- out distinction . Dicenda tacenda locuti ! Every thing that fell from him has been caught with eagerness by his admirers , who , as he says in one ...
Pagina ix
... thing . He disputes with heat things , which have been published under the indiscriminately , mindless of the rank , charac- title of Essays , Remarks , Observations , & c . on ter , and situation of those with whom he dis Shakspeare ...
... thing . He disputes with heat things , which have been published under the indiscriminately , mindless of the rank , charac- title of Essays , Remarks , Observations , & c . on ter , and situation of those with whom he dis Shakspeare ...
Pagina xviii
... things were said . Accordingly , the librarian at Buckingham - house invited Johnson to see that elegant collection of ... thing else to exempt him from the solicitudes of life . He was intro- duced to the late Mr. Thrale and his family ...
... things were said . Accordingly , the librarian at Buckingham - house invited Johnson to see that elegant collection of ... thing else to exempt him from the solicitudes of life . He was intro- duced to the late Mr. Thrale and his family ...
Pagina xxviii
... thing comes from him with ease ; conquer them . There is , it must be admitted , a but when I say a good thing I seem to labour . " swell of language , often out of all proportion to When we compare him with Addison , the con- the ...
... thing comes from him with ease ; conquer them . There is , it must be admitted , a but when I say a good thing I seem to labour . " swell of language , often out of all proportion to When we compare him with Addison , the con- the ...
Pagina xxxv
... thing comes from him with ease ; but when I say a good thing , I seem to labour . " When we compare him with Addison , the con- trast is still stronger . Addison lends grace and ornament to truth ; Johnson gives it force and energy ...
... thing comes from him with ease ; but when I say a good thing , I seem to labour . " When we compare him with Addison , the con- trast is still stronger . Addison lends grace and ornament to truth ; Johnson gives it force and energy ...
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Pagina xiv - 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.
Pagina xiv - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Pagina x - 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.
Pagina xiv - 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...
Pagina 309 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Pagina 218 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Pagina 109 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way.
Pagina 101 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that " his walk was now quick, and again slow," as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
Pagina iii - 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 rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Pagina 102 - ... till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can...