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Page 95
... doctor Johnson is said to have made many wise observations : but this , I suppose to be one of the wisest he ever uttered . What business can stand in competition with this ? What pleasure has half the allure- ments ? Were I in the ...
... doctor Johnson is said to have made many wise observations : but this , I suppose to be one of the wisest he ever uttered . What business can stand in competition with this ? What pleasure has half the allure- ments ? Were I in the ...
Page 103
... Doctor Johnson says , that those who have contracted bad habits must get rid of them as well as they can : but he seems , at the same time , to consider it as a thing extremely improbable , that the conquest should ever be completely ...
... Doctor Johnson says , that those who have contracted bad habits must get rid of them as well as they can : but he seems , at the same time , to consider it as a thing extremely improbable , that the conquest should ever be completely ...
Page 149
... Dr. Ash , gives Shakspeare as his authority , " Doth progress on thy cheek ; " though it may be observed that he places the accent on the first syllable . It is admitted that this verb is not to be found in Johnson's dictionary ; but ...
... Dr. Ash , gives Shakspeare as his authority , " Doth progress on thy cheek ; " though it may be observed that he places the accent on the first syllable . It is admitted that this verb is not to be found in Johnson's dictionary ; but ...
Page 174
... Doctor Johnson as laughing heartily at a noble author's ignorance of the art of punctuation . “ Lord Lyttelton was thirty years in preparing his History ; and he employed a man to point it for him : as if another man could point his ...
... Doctor Johnson as laughing heartily at a noble author's ignorance of the art of punctuation . “ Lord Lyttelton was thirty years in preparing his History ; and he employed a man to point it for him : as if another man could point his ...
Page 203
... Doctor Johnson ? Piomingo . I think it one of the most entertaining books in the English language . Every thing that relates to so great a man as Johnson must be highly interest- ing and Boswell exposes to our view such an infinite ...
... Doctor Johnson ? Piomingo . I think it one of the most entertaining books in the English language . Every thing that relates to so great a man as Johnson must be highly interest- ing and Boswell exposes to our view such an infinite ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.