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 - 602 pages |
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... given a sanction to biographical history , and concurred to recommend that precept of the wife fon of Sirach , in which we are exhorted to praise famous men , fuch as by their counfels and by their knowledge of learning were meet for ...
... given a sanction to biographical history , and concurred to recommend that precept of the wife fon of Sirach , in which we are exhorted to praise famous men , fuch as by their counfels and by their knowledge of learning were meet for ...
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... given fervitude its fanction . The feudal fyftem of government throughout Europe had fo arranged the several orders of fubjects , that the lower were uni- formly dependent on the higher ; and in the hiftory of the peerage of our own ...
... given fervitude its fanction . The feudal fyftem of government throughout Europe had fo arranged the several orders of fubjects , that the lower were uni- formly dependent on the higher ; and in the hiftory of the peerage of our own ...
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... given as a literary curiosity : < • SIR , Nov. 25 , 1734 . As you appear no less fenfible than your readers , ⚫ of the defect of your poetical article , you will not be displeased , if , in order to the improvement of it , I ...
... given as a literary curiosity : < • SIR , Nov. 25 , 1734 . As you appear no less fenfible than your readers , ⚫ of the defect of your poetical article , you will not be displeased , if , in order to the improvement of it , I ...
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... given in the life of Edmund Smith : - • Of Gilbert Walmsley , thus prefented 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 ...
... given in the life of Edmund Smith : - • Of Gilbert Walmsley , thus prefented 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 ...
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... given proofs of an exuberant fancy and a happy invention . Some years after he entered into holy orders . A farther account of him may be seen in the Biographia Dramatica , to a place in which work he seems to have acquired a title , by ...
... given proofs of an exuberant fancy and a happy invention . Some years after he entered into holy orders . A farther account of him may be seen in the Biographia Dramatica , to a place in which work he seems to have acquired a title , by ...
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Page 558 - 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.
Page 153 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 491 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 60 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
Page 433 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Page 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.
Page 195 - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.