Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonLongmans, Green, 1896 - 67 pages |
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Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on Johnson Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on Johnson Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
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Page 54 - 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,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page xi - May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy days ; Then go dwell for ever near Him, See His face, and sing His praise...
Page 55 - ... the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 9 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him.
Page 26 - Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind. My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me.
Page 54 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Page 54 - 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...
Page 24 - A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having...
Page 12 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Page 30 - Cross, and are likely to be read as long as the English exists, either as a living or as a dead language. Nature had made him a slave and an idolater. His mind resembled those creepers which the botanists call parasites, and which can subsist only by clinging round the stems and imbibing the juices of stronger plants. He must have fastened himself on somebody.