Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonMacmillan, 1903 - 197 pages |
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... kind and generous heart , with a gloomy and irritable temper . He had inherited from his ancestors a scrof- ulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medi- cine to remove . His parents were weak enough to 10 believe that the royal ...
... kind and generous heart , with a gloomy and irritable temper . He had inherited from his ancestors a scrof- ulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medi- cine to remove . His parents were weak enough to 10 believe that the royal ...
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... kind to me . If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him . " At Hervey's table Johnson sometimes enjoyed feasts which were made more agreeable by contrast . But in general he dined , and thought that he dined well , on sixpenny worth of ...
... kind to me . If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him . " At Hervey's table Johnson sometimes enjoyed feasts which were made more agreeable by contrast . But in general he dined , and thought that he dined well , on sixpenny worth of ...
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... kind- ness , exerted himself to obtain an academical degree and the mastership of a grammar school for the poor young poet . The attempt failed ; and Johnson re- mained a bookseller's hack . ΙΟ It does not appear that these two men ...
... kind- ness , exerted himself to obtain an academical degree and the mastership of a grammar school for the poor young poet . The attempt failed ; and Johnson re- mained a bookseller's hack . ΙΟ It does not appear that these two men ...
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... sought for relaxation in literary labour of a more agreeable kind . In 1749 he published the Vanity of Human Wishes , an excellent imitation of the Tenth 25 Satire of Juvenal . It is in truth not easy SAMUEL JOHNSON 23.
... sought for relaxation in literary labour of a more agreeable kind . In 1749 he published the Vanity of Human Wishes , an excellent imitation of the Tenth 25 Satire of Juvenal . It is in truth not easy SAMUEL JOHNSON 23.
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... kind . They repelled each other strongly , and yet attracted each other strongly . Nature had made them of very different clay ; and circumstances had fully brought out the natural pe- 10 culiarities of both . Sudden prosperity had ...
... kind . They repelled each other strongly , and yet attracted each other strongly . Nature had made them of very different clay ; and circumstances had fully brought out the natural pe- 10 culiarities of both . Sudden prosperity had ...
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Page 79 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 79 - Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 156 - His dress was a rusty brown morning suit, a pair of old shoes by way of slippers, a little shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head, and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his breeches hanging loose. A considerable crowd of people gathered round, and were not a little struck by this singular appearance.
Page 84 - ... principle, I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay, more ; I will not only obey him like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my Pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair, but no longer. More than...
Page 85 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Page 26 - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year.
Page 92 - What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still.
Page 84 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all...
Page 111 - The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices. If we judged of him by the best parts of his mind, we should place him almost as high as he was placed by the idolatry of Boswell ; if by the worst parts of his mind, we should place him even below Boswell himself.
Page 121 - When he talked, he clothed his wit and his sense in forcible and natural expressions. As soon as he took his pen in his hand to write for the public, his style became systematically vicious.