The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... Whigs he was arraigned of injustice to Milton ; by some Cambridge men of depreciating Gray ; and his expressing with a dignified freedom what he really thought of George , Lord Lyttleton , gave offence to some of the friends of that ...
... Whigs he was arraigned of injustice to Milton ; by some Cambridge men of depreciating Gray ; and his expressing with a dignified freedom what he really thought of George , Lord Lyttleton , gave offence to some of the friends of that ...
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... Whig , who used to send over Europe presents of democratical books , with their boards stamped with daggers and caps of liberty . Mrs. Carter said , " He was a bad man : he used to talk uncharitably . JOHNSON . " Poh ! poh ! Madam ; who ...
... Whig , who used to send over Europe presents of democratical books , with their boards stamped with daggers and caps of liberty . Mrs. Carter said , " He was a bad man : he used to talk uncharitably . JOHNSON . " Poh ! poh ! Madam ; who ...
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... I mentioned that Mr. Burke had boasted how quiet the nation was in George the Second's reign , when Whigs were in power , compared with the present reign , when Tories governed ; - " Why , Sir , ( Atat . 72. ] 107 DR . JOHNSON .
... I mentioned that Mr. Burke had boasted how quiet the nation was in George the Second's reign , when Whigs were in power , compared with the present reign , when Tories governed ; - " Why , Sir , ( Atat . 72. ] 107 DR . JOHNSON .
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... Whigs , who , being unrestrained by that principle , will oppose by any means . " This month he lost not only Mr. Thrale , but another friend , Mr. William Strahan , Junior , printer , the eldest son of his old and constant friend ...
... Whigs , who , being unrestrained by that principle , will oppose by any means . " This month he lost not only Mr. Thrale , but another friend , Mr. William Strahan , Junior , printer , the eldest son of his old and constant friend ...
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... WHIG . " A wise Tory and a wise Whig , I believe , will agree . Their principles are the same , though their modes of thinking are different . A high Tory , makes government unintelligible : it is lost in the clouds . A violent Whig ...
... WHIG . " A wise Tory and a wise Whig , I believe , will agree . Their principles are the same , though their modes of thinking are different . A high Tory , makes government unintelligible : it is lost in the clouds . A violent Whig ...
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Seite 324 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Seite 100 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Seite 104 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 47 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Seite 48 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
Seite 459 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
Seite 151 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
Seite 113 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Seite 80 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 316 - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.