The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: Lives of eminent persons. Letters. PrayersT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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Page 437 - you have done, however I may lament it, I have no pretence to refent, as it has not been injurious to me jI therefore breathe out one figh more of tendernefs, perhaps ufelefs, but at leaft fincere. I wifh that God may grant you every bleffing, that you may be happy in this world for its
Page 437 - your rank will be higher, and your fortune more under your own eye. I defire not to detail all my reafons, but every argument of prudence and intereft is for England, and only fome phantoms of imagination feduce you to Italy. I am afraid however that my counfel is vain, yet I have
Page 303 - verge of propriety ; and flights which would- never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the fhame of falling. .. •" " There remains yet an objection againft the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animad.verfions of criticifm. There are paffages from which fome have taken occafion to rank him among
Page 307 - owe this faith unto hiftory;" and that " they only had the advantage of a bold and " noble faith, who lived before his coming; and " upon obfcure prophecies and myftical types, could " raife a belief." Nor can contempt of the pofitive and ritual parts of religion be imputed to him, who doubts, whether a good man would refufe a poifoned eucharift; and
Page 431 - have honoured you with fincere efteem. Let not all our endearments be forgotten, but let me have in this great diftrefs your pity and your prayers. You fee I yet turn to you with my complaints, as a, fettled and unalienable friend j do not, do not drive me from you, for I have not
Page 285 - little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the frogs of Homer, the gnat and the bees of Virgil, the butterfly of Spenfer, the fhadow of Wowerus, and the quincunx of Browne. In the profecution of this fport of fancy, he confiders every production of art and nature in which he could find any
Page 449 - in thy protection when Thou giveft and when Thou takeft away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me. To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Blefs, guide, and defend them, that they may fo pafs through this world, as finally to enjoy in thy
Page 292 - a king fo judicious and fo much beloved, had the power of giving merit new luftre and greater popularity. Thus he lived in high reputation, till in his feventy-fixth year he was feized with a colick, which, after having tortured him about a week, put an end to his life at Norwich, on his birth-day,
Page 429 - Latin verfe. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them eafily, and concluded myfelf to be unimpaired in my faculties. Soon after I perceived that I had fuffered a
Page 449 - 6, 1782. A LMIGHTY God, Father of all mercy, help me, by thy grace, that I may with humble and fincere thankfulnefs remember the comforts and conveniencies which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may refign them with holy