The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... says Sprat , to relate , " That " he had this defect in his memory at that time , " that his teachers never could bring it to retain " the ordinary rules of grammar . " . This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a ...
... says Sprat , to relate , " That " he had this defect in his memory at that time , " that his teachers never could bring it to retain " the ordinary rules of grammar . " . This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a ...
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... says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his " master never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without ...
... says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his " master never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without ...
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... says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his repu- * He was a ...
... says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injurious to his repu- * He was a ...
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... business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " COWLE Y. 7.
... business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " COWLE Y. 7.
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... says he , " is the only thing " now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from " believing that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place incline to that of union ...
... says he , " is the only thing " now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from " believing that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place incline to that of union ...
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Page 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 77 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Page 154 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Page 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Page 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Page 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.