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... hope , that the addition of the notes will turn the balance in our favour , considering the reputation of the annotator . " . His proposal was accepted ; but it should seem from this letter , though subscribed with his own name , that ...
... hope , that the addition of the notes will turn the balance in our favour , considering the reputation of the annotator . " . His proposal was accepted ; but it should seem from this letter , though subscribed with his own name , that ...
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... hope you will burn this , and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked , I am sure your humanity and propen- sity to relieve merit in ...
... hope you will burn this , and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing ; but if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked , I am sure your humanity and propen- sity to relieve merit in ...
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... hope , was fully verified . The catalogue became an object of public curiosity . It was purchased as the re- cord of a most valuable collection , and pre- served as one of the memorials of learning . While he was employed in that ...
... hope , was fully verified . The catalogue became an object of public curiosity . It was purchased as the re- cord of a most valuable collection , and pre- served as one of the memorials of learning . While he was employed in that ...
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... hope , that since you , whose authority in our language is so generally acknowledged , have commissioned me to declare my opinion , I shall be considered as exercising a kind of vicarious jurisdiction . " The manuscript got accidentally ...
... hope , that since you , whose authority in our language is so generally acknowledged , have commissioned me to declare my opinion , I shall be considered as exercising a kind of vicarious jurisdiction . " The manuscript got accidentally ...
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... hope the world tastes them ; for its own sake I hope & c . But Johnson is well known to have represented his own practice , in the following passage , in his Life of Pope . " Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at ...
... hope the world tastes them ; for its own sake I hope & c . But Johnson is well known to have represented his own practice , in the following passage , in his Life of Pope . " Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at ...
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Page 509 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 296 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 568 - His fall was destined 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 210 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 209 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an...
Page 97 - Then, sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing." The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson; one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Page 570 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Page 287 - ... 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. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk.
Page 95 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
Page 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.