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Page 144
... stories , I cannot here be sure that they have done so . As the Duke says however to the Weaver , in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' Never excuse ; if your play be a bad one , keep at least the excuses to yourself ' . ' • I am aware that ...
... stories , I cannot here be sure that they have done so . As the Duke says however to the Weaver , in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' Never excuse ; if your play be a bad one , keep at least the excuses to yourself ' . ' • I am aware that ...
Page 148
... stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . Nay , if you are for family history ( says Mr. Johnson good - humouredly ) I can fit you : thirteen years of age and her two brothers were still younger ...
... stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . Nay , if you are for family history ( says Mr. Johnson good - humouredly ) I can fit you : thirteen years of age and her two brothers were still younger ...
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... story himself , but I have forgot who the father was1 . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country , such as there were many of in those days , who possessing , perhaps , one or two hundred pounds a year in land ...
... story himself , but I have forgot who the father was1 . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country , such as there were many of in those days , who possessing , perhaps , one or two hundred pounds a year in land ...
Page 155
... story less to the credit of his cousin's penetration , how Ford on some occasion said to him , ' You will make your way the more easily in the world , I see , as you are contented to dispute no man's claim to conversation excellence ...
... story less to the credit of his cousin's penetration , how Ford on some occasion said to him , ' You will make your way the more easily in the world , I see , as you are contented to dispute no man's claim to conversation excellence ...
Page 156
... story of St. George and the Dragon . I know not whether this is the proper place to add , that such was his tenderness , and such his gratitude , that he took a journey to Litchfield fifty - seven years afterwards to support and comfort ...
... story of St. George and the Dragon . I know not whether this is the proper place to add , that such was his tenderness , and such his gratitude , that he took a journey to Litchfield fifty - seven years afterwards to support and comfort ...
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Page 439 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 428 - 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 428 - That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal, and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next.
Page 252 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 260 - Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five ; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five ; For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five ; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five ; And all who wisely...
Page 186 - Thus to mine eyes. —Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 196 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 473 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Page 466 - No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other. His thoughts are natural, and his style has a smooth and placid equability, which has never yet obtained its due commendation. Nothing is far-sought, or hard-laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness, and familiar without grossness.
Page 296 - him to whom much is given, much will be required," seems to have been ever present to his mind in a rigorous sense, and to have made him dissatisfied with his labours and acts of goodness, however comparatively great ; so that the unavoidable consciousness of his superiority was in that respect a cause of disquiet. He suffered so much from this, and...