Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Band 1W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... racter , * induced him at subsequent periods of his life , and previous to his great work on the poets , to present the public with several other valuable productions in this class of literature . In 1751 , appeared his Life of Cheynel ...
... racter , * induced him at subsequent periods of his life , and previous to his great work on the poets , to present the public with several other valuable productions in this class of literature . In 1751 , appeared his Life of Cheynel ...
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... racter is calumniated by the epithets hard , scho- lastic , and repellent . Though plain , it is nervous and emphatic , and in the construction of its sen- tences peculiarly clear and neat . That this , cast of diction was the result of ...
... racter is calumniated by the epithets hard , scho- lastic , and repellent . Though plain , it is nervous and emphatic , and in the construction of its sen- tences peculiarly clear and neat . That this , cast of diction was the result of ...
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... racter of Dr. Johnson , " has given us , in very ele- gant verse , the following discriminative catalogue : By Nature's gifts ordain'd mankind to rule , He , like a Titian , form'd his brilliant school , And taught congenial spirits to ...
... racter of Dr. Johnson , " has given us , in very ele- gant verse , the following discriminative catalogue : By Nature's gifts ordain'd mankind to rule , He , like a Titian , form'd his brilliant school , And taught congenial spirits to ...
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... racter , and uniformly dashed and qualified with something of an opposite nature : medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus augat . " While he was depreciating the fame of the illus- trious ancestor , Johnson ...
... racter , and uniformly dashed and qualified with something of an opposite nature : medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus augat . " While he was depreciating the fame of the illus- trious ancestor , Johnson ...
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... racter which the opposite party took care to dis- seminate . The year succeeding the publication of his False Alarm , he printed Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands , 8vo ; the materials of which were ...
... racter which the opposite party took care to dis- seminate . The year succeeding the publication of his False Alarm , he printed Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands , 8vo ; the materials of which were ...
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Seite 337 - 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, "SAM JOHNSON.
Seite 337 - 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; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 307 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 336 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Seite 404 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Seite 336 - 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?
Seite 464 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Seite 254 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Seite 307 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Seite 338 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.