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... late Dr. Samuel Johnson , printed by J. Walker , 44 , Pater - Noster Row , 1785. " This also was anony- mous , but internal evidence of a very cogent character plainly points to the Rev. William Shaw as the author of this little volume ...
... late Dr. Samuel Johnson , printed by J. Walker , 44 , Pater - Noster Row , 1785. " This also was anony- mous , but internal evidence of a very cogent character plainly points to the Rev. William Shaw as the author of this little volume ...
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... late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the last twenty years of his life , by Hesther Lynch Piozzi . " From a letter of Walpole's , in Mr. Hayward's " Life and Writings of Mrs. Piozzi , " vol . i . , p . 290 , we learn that it came out on ...
... late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the last twenty years of his life , by Hesther Lynch Piozzi . " From a letter of Walpole's , in Mr. Hayward's " Life and Writings of Mrs. Piozzi , " vol . i . , p . 290 , we learn that it came out on ...
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... late political publications . " This letter , together with a paragraph in a letter from Temple to Boswell , were laid before Johnson by Boswell himself , who notifies that these two instances of animadversion appeared , from the ...
... late political publications . " This letter , together with a paragraph in a letter from Temple to Boswell , were laid before Johnson by Boswell himself , who notifies that these two instances of animadversion appeared , from the ...
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... late , and regretted that an edition on this principle had not been undertaken when full light might have been obtained . His lordship was also so kind as to dictate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his ...
... late , and regretted that an edition on this principle had not been undertaken when full light might have been obtained . His lordship was also so kind as to dictate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his ...
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... late Sir George Beaumont , whose own accuracy was exemplary , and who lived very much in the society of Johnson's latter days . “ Rydal Mount , 12th Sept. , 1826 . " Sir Joshua Reynolds told me at his table , immediately after the pub ...
... late Sir George Beaumont , whose own accuracy was exemplary , and who lived very much in the society of Johnson's latter days . “ Rydal Mount , 12th Sept. , 1826 . " Sir Joshua Reynolds told me at his table , immediately after the pub ...
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Page 204 - ... 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native...
Page 312 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From Scotland," cried Davies roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Page 361 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 146 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resign...
Page 316 - His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty: he had on a little old shriveled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers.
Page 353 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— " So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
Page 358 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 394 - ... endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Page 41 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 235 - Talking to me upon this subject when we were at Ashbourne in 1777, he mentioned a still stronger instance of the predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work than any now to be found in it. "You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word renegado, after telling that it meant 'one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, 'Sometimes we say a Gower.' Thus it went to the press; but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.