The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - Authors, English |
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... Poets the variations were so considerable as to be printed in a separate pamphlet for the use of former purchasers . 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams , and Dr. Johnson con- firmed it . Bramston , in his Man of Taste , has the same ...
... Poets the variations were so considerable as to be printed in a separate pamphlet for the use of former purchasers . 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams , and Dr. Johnson con- firmed it . Bramston , in his Man of Taste , has the same ...
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... poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own College : and I have , from the in- formation of Dr. Taylor , a very ...
... poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own College : and I have , from the in- formation of Dr. Taylor , a very ...
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... Poets ) , thus drawn in the glowing colours of gratitude : " 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 ...
... Poets ) , thus drawn in the glowing colours of gratitude : " 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 ...
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... Poems of Politian : 2 Angeli Politiani Poemata Latina , quibus Notas , cum historia Latine poeseos , a Petrarcha avo ad Politiani tempora deducta , et vita Politiani fusius quam antehac enarrata , addidit SAM . JOHNSON . " 3 1 See ...
... Poems of Politian : 2 Angeli Politiani Poemata Latina , quibus Notas , cum historia Latine poeseos , a Petrarcha avo ad Politiani tempora deducta , et vita Politiani fusius quam antehac enarrata , addidit SAM . JOHNSON . " 3 1 See ...
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... poems , inscriptions , & c . , never printed before , which he will sometimes supply you with ; but likewise short literary dissertations in Latin or English , critical remarks on authors ancient or modern , forgotten poems that deserve ...
... poems , inscriptions , & c . , never printed before , which he will sometimes supply you with ; but likewise short literary dissertations in Latin or English , critical remarks on authors ancient or modern , forgotten poems that deserve ...
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Page 186 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it,3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 187 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Page 185 - 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 honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 137 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 142 - March,2 1752, on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it...
Page 439 - Baretti or the pickleman has kept Davies from sleep : nor does he know himself. And as to his not sleeping, Sir, Tom Davies is a very great man ; Tom has been upon the stage, and knows how to do those things : I have not been upon the stage, and cannot do those things." BOSWELL : " I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON : " Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good....
Page 186 - ... 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...
Page 191 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 348 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 401 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.