Life of
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共 59 段- The Concordance of Johnson's sayings which follows the Index
- It is painful to me to think, that while I was carrying on t
- Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the Caledonian Mercury,
- 'When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield, Johnson was not quite
- Ye blooming train, who give despair or joy,
- Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke Col
- [Page 91: First letter to Edward Cave. Ætat 25.]
- In the course of the summer he returned to Lichfield, where
- yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authou
- As Mr. Pope's note concerning Johnson, alluded to in a forme
- It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity, t
- there is the following note: 'The authour being ill of the g
- When asked how he felt upon the ill success of his tragedy,
- I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be f
- 1752: ÆTAT. 43.--In 1752 he was almost entirely occupied wit
- He now relieved the drudgery of his _Dictionary_, and the me
- Johnson this year found an interval of leisure to make an ex
- 'The part of your _Dictionary_ which you have favoured me wi
- Johnson this year gave at once a proof of his benevolence, q
- [Page 320: Johnson refuses a country living. A.D. 1757.]
- 'SAM. JOHNSON.'
- 'I am very sincerely solicitous for the preservation or curi
- 'I have lately seen Mr. Stratico, Professor of Padua, who ha
- This rupture with Sheridan deprived Johnson of one of his mo
- We talked of belief in ghosts. He said, 'Sir, I make a disti
- On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged to sup with me at my lo
- Rousseau's treatise on the inequality of mankind[1301] was a
- [Page 456: Mr. Derrick. A.D. 1763.]
- After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some t
- 1765: ÆTAT. 56.--Early in the year 1765 he paid a short visi
- Such were the risks run by Cave and Johnson and their fellow
- 'I have got twelve guineas[1468] to send you, but unhappily
- THE QUEEN:--'Miss Burney, have you heard that Boswell is goi
- [114] Her epitaph says that she was born at Kingsnorton. Kin
- Mr. Carlyle is in error in describing Johnson as a servitor.
- [222] It was the practice in his time for a servitor, by ord
- [277] A writer in _Notes and Queries_, 1st S. xii. 266, says
- [320] Johnson's letter to her of Feb. 6, 1759, shows that sh
- [365] P. 269. BOSWELL. 'Short extracts from _London, a Poem_
- [413] Horace Walpole says that towards convicts under senten
- [481] _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_, 3rd ed. p. 35 [p.
- 'Old Lovat was beheaded yesterday,' wrote Horace Walpole on
- 'Be this at least his praise, be this his pride,
- [644] 'The character of Prospero was, beyond all question, o
- [684] 'Johnson turned his house,' writes Lord Macaulay, 'int
- [725] The thought may have been suggested to Reynolds by Joh
- [780] That collection of letters cannot be vindicated from t
- [842] 'Talking one day of the patronage the great sometimes
- [890] He more than once attacked them. Thus in _An Appeal to
- [959] 'On Mr. Thrale's attack of apoplexy in 1779, Johnson w
- [1017] We may apply to Johnson in his behaviour to his mothe
- [1053] In this _Introduction_ (_Works_, vi. 148) Johnson ans
- [1107] For his _Falkland's Islands_ 'materials were furnishe
- [1150] 'Charles Fox said that Mrs. Sheridan's _Sydney Biddul
- [1213] Published in 1759.
- [1277] He used to tell, with great humour, from my relation
- [1324] See _post_, Jan. 19, 1775. In his _Hebrides_ (p. i) B
- 'Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride
- [1441] Miss Burney records in May 1779, how one day at Strea