item: #1 of 18 id: 10357 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 date: None words: 204986 flesch: 77 summary: He says:-- 'If as a Necessarian I cease to _blame_ men for their vices in the ultimate sense of the word, though, in the common and proper sense of it, I continue to do as much as other persons (for how necessarily soever they act, they are influenced by a base and mischievous disposition of mind, against which I must guard myself and others in proportion as I love myself and others),' &c. Priestley's _Works_, iii. 508. See also Walpole's _Letters_, vi. 302, and _ante_, ii. 430, note 1. keywords: account; ante; april; attention; away; bishop; book; boswell; burke; burney; character; church; club; come; common; company; conversation; country; croker; d'arblay; day; days; dear; death; diary; edition; england; english; evening; father; following; friend; garrick; general; gentleman; god; good; great; greek; hand; having; hawkins; health; hear; hebrides; high; history; honour; hope; horace; house; human; iii; ill; instance; johnson; june; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; lady; langton; language; late; learning; left; letters; life; like; london; long; lord; lordship; love; madam; malone; man; manner; memoirs; men; merit; mind; miss; mme; money; morning; mrs; nature; new; note; occasion; opinion; people; person; piozzi; place; pleasure; poor; pope; post; pounds; power; present; read; reason; respect; reverend; reynolds; right; room; samuel johnson; sept; servant; set; shall; sir; sir john; sir joshua; state; subject; talk; talking; tell; things; think; thought; thrale; time; truth; walpole; want; way; wish; works; world; writing; years; young cache: 10357.txt plain text: 10357.txt item: #2 of 18 id: 10451 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) date: None words: 201444 flesch: 80 summary: Garrick promised to act it; and _Alfred_ was produced.' 'I cannot learn that ever this custom prevailed in England, though it certainly did in Scotland (under the name of _mercketa_ or _marcheta_), till abolished by Malcolm III.' keywords: account; allan; answer; ante; appearance; attention; august; bed; boat; book; boswell; breakfast; burke; castle; character; charles; chief; church; col; college; company; concerning; conversation; country; croker; day; days; deal; death; different; dinner; doctor; dr johnson; duke; earl; edinburgh; edition; england; english; erse; evening; family; father; fellow; following; friend; garrick; general; gentleman; good; great; head; high; highland; history; home; honour; hope; horace; house; hume; iii; island; james; johnson; journal; journey; kind; king; knowledge; lady; laird; late; law; learning; leave; left; letters; life; london; lord; m'lean; m'leod; m'queen; macdonald; macleod; malcolm; man; manner; mean; men; miles; mind; miss; monboddo; money; morning; mrs; mull; nature; night; note; october; opinion; original; passage; people; person; piozzi; place; pleasure; poor; pope; post; power; present; prince; rasay; reason; respect; return; road; robertson; rock; room; round; samuel johnson; saying; scotland; scott; sea; second; sense; september; servant; set; shew; sir; sky; small; state; subject; talk; thing; thought; thrale; time; tour; town; truth; visit; water; way; wind; wish; woman; works; world; writing; years; young cache: 10451.txt plain text: 10451.txt item: #3 of 18 id: 10835 author: Johnson, Samuel title: Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes date: None words: 145465 flesch: 71 summary: The epitaph, in Stretham church, on Mr. Thrale, abounds with inaccuracies; and those who are fond of detecting little blunders in great men, may be amply gratified in the perusal of a review of Thrale's epitaph in the Classical Journal, xii. 6. It may be asserted, without a partial panegyric of the object of our praise, that the works of no single author in the wide range of British literature, not excepting, perhaps, even Addison, contain a richer and more varied fund of rational entertainment and sound instruction than those of Dr. Johnson. keywords: abdalla; account; age; aspasia; attention; author; beauty; boswell; breast; business; cali; caraza; care; cause; chap; character; charms; choice; company; condition; conversation; country; course; curiosity; danger; day; days; dear; death; delight; demetrius; desire; earth; edition; english; ev'ry; evening; evil; eyes; fair; fall; fame; fate; father; fear; flight; fly; following; folly; force; form; friend; friendship; future; garrick; general; genius; gentleman; gold; good; guilt; half; hand; happiness; having; head; heart; heav'n; hic; history; honour; hope; hour; house; human; imagination; imlac; irene; island; johnson; journey; justice; kind; king; knowledge; labour; lady; language; late; learning; leave; left; length; leontius; letter; lichfield; life; lines; little; live; london; look; lord; love; mahomet; man; mankind; manners; master; means; memory; men; merit; mihi; milton; mind; moral; morning; mountains; mrs; mustapha; nations; nature; new; night; nile; non; nunc; o'er; opinion; pain; passion; pekuah; people; place; pleasing; pleasure; poet; pope; pounds; power; praise; present; pride; prince; princess; qui; rage; rasselas; reason; remains; remember; rest; return; rocks; room; round; scene; sea; set; shall; sir; skie; solitude; sorrow; soul; state; subject; sultan; thee; thing; thought; thrale; thy; tibi; time; translation; truth; vain; valley; view; virtue; visit; voice; want; war; water; way; wealth; wild; wisdom; wish; work; world; writer; years; young; youth cache: 10835.txt plain text: 10835.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 11031 author: Stephen, Leslie title: Samuel Johnson date: None words: 59027 flesch: 67 summary: As the newly-married couple rode back from church, Mrs. Johnson showed her spirit by reproaching her husband for riding too fast, and then for lagging behind. Mrs. Johnson apparently knew how to regain supremacy; but, at any rate, Johnson loved her devotedly during life, and clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years, as fondly as if they had been the most pattern hero and heroine of romantic fiction. keywords: acquaintance; author; book; boswell; burke; character; conversation; day; days; death; fact; father; friend; garrick; general; goldsmith; good; house; human; johnson; kind; lady; letter; life; literature; london; love; man; men; mind; miss; mrs; nature; new; occasion; people; period; poor; present; rambler; reynolds; savage; sense; sir; street; talk; thought; thrale; time; truth; want; way; work; world; years; young cache: 11031.txt plain text: 11031.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 11729 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. date: None words: 193519 flesch: 69 summary: l. 259, ii. 368, n. 1; l. 283, iii. 328; l. 350, v. 415, n. 4; 1. 378, ii. 229, n. 1; _Satires, Epilogue, i. 29, iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1; i. 131, iv. 9, n. 5; i. 135, iii. 48, n. 2; ii. 70, i. 508; ii. 283, n. 1; iv. 29, n. 1; ii. 208, iii. 380, n. 1; _Imitations of Horace, Epistles_, i. vi. 3, ii. 158, n. 2; i. vi. 120, ii. 211, n. 4; i. vi. 126, iii. 386, n. 4; ii. i. 14, v. 372, n. 2; ii. i. 71, i. 118; ii. i. 75, iv. 102, n. 2; ii. i. 180, iii. 389, n. 5; ii. i. 221, ii. 132, n. 2; ii. ii. 23, iii. 237, n. 2; ii. ii. 78, v. 265, n. 1; ii. ii. 157, i. 220; ii. ii. 276, i. 127, n. 4; _Satires_, ii. i. 67, iii. 91, n. 6; ii. i. 78, iv. 318, n. 2; ii. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1; _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346. POPE, Mrs., i. 499, n. 1. Bis dat qui cito dat_, ii. 290, n. 4. BISCAY, language of, i. 322. BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274; House of Lords, in the, ii. 171; how made, ii. 352; v. 80; Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9; learning, their, iv. 13; dulness, ib. n. 3; liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295; losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1; 'necessity of holding preferments _in commendam_,' iv. 118, n. 2; 'Seven Bishops,' iv. 287; tippling-house, at a, iv. 75; a rout, ib. keywords: 103; 118; 135; 140; 170; 174; 190; 208; 223; 226; 239; 242; 268; 274; 311; 318; 353; 360; 381; 402; 407; 421; account; attacks; bishop; book; boswell; burke; character; charles; church; club; college; conversation; death; describes; dictionary; duke; earl; edinburgh; edition; england; english; garrick; general; george iii; goldsmith; good; great; henry; history; house; i. 1; i. 122; i. 157; i. 176; i. 181; i. 193; i. 2; i. 227; i. 232; i. 248; i. 263; i. 279; i. 294; i. 3; i. 307; i. 359; i. 36; i. 383; i. 395; i. 418; i. 439; i. 452; i. 467; i. 491; i. 5; i. 58; i. 60; i. 68; i. 73; i. 75; i. 86; i. i.; i. iii; iii; james; johnson; king; knowledge; lady; letter; lichfield; life; like; lines; london; lord; love; man; member; memoirs; men; mind; miss; mrs; n. 1; n. 2; n. 3; n. 4; n. i.; n. ii; n. l; oxford; people; pope; praises; professor; rev; reynolds; school; scotch; scotland; second; shakespeare; sir; society; street; style; talk; thomas; thrale; time; visits; vols; william; works; world cache: 11729.txt plain text: 11729.txt item: #6 of 18 id: 15045 author: Piozzi, Hester Lynch title: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings date: None words: 100069 flesch: 69 summary: _Mrs. Thrale_. _Mrs. Thrale_. keywords: account; anecdotes; away; baretti; bath; book; boswell; burney; character; children; company; conduct; conversation; country; d'arblay; daughter; day; days; dear; death; dinner; doctor; evening; family; father; footnote; friend; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; health; heart; home; hope; house; husband; ill; italy; johnson; june; kind; lady; leave; letter; life; london; long; lord; love; madame; man; marriage; men; mind; miss; miss thrale; money; morning; mrs; new; people; piozzi; place; poor; power; pretty; reason; return; room; set; sir; streatham; street; subject; think; thought; thrale; thraliana; time; verses; wish; woman; world; years; young cache: 15045.txt plain text: 15045.txt item: #7 of 18 id: 1564 author: Boswell, James title: Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood date: None words: 219745 flesch: 75 summary: At that time booksellers' shops in the provincial towns of England were very rare, so that there was not one even in Birmingham, in which town old Mr. Johnson used to open a shop every market-day. Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church, and in the midst of so great a crowd. keywords: account; acquaintance; april; attention; authour; beauclerk; book; boswell; burke; character; church; company; conversation; country; day; dear; death; degree; dinner; english; evening; following; friend; garrick; general; gentleman; goldsmith; good; great; head; high; home; honour; hope; house; instance; johnson; kind; king; knowledge; lady; langton; language; late; left; letter; life; little; london; long; lord; love; madam; man; manner; men; merit; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; nay; new; occasion; opinion; oxford; people; place; pleasure; poor; pounds; present; publick; read; reason; respect; reynolds; right; room; samuel johnson; scotland; sir; sir john; sir joshua; sir william; state; subject; talk; taylor; things; think; thought; thrale; time; truth; way; wine; wish; work; world; writing; year; young cache: 1564.txt plain text: 1564.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 2064 author: Johnson, Samuel title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland date: None words: 56809 flesch: 67 summary: At New-year's eve, in the hall or castle of the Laird, where, at festal seasons, there may be supposed a very numerous company, one man dresses himself in a cow's hide, upon which other men beat with sticks. At that instant one of the Macleods came to his rescue; who, as it is said, offered quarter to the dragoon, but he thought himself obliged to reject what he had before refused, and, as battle gives little time to deliberate, was immediately killed. keywords: appearance; boswell; cattle; chief; col; countries; country; danger; day; english; general; gentleman; good; ground; highlands; house; inhabitants; islands; laird; language; left; life; maclean; macleod; man; men; money; mull; parts; people; place; power; present; reason; scotland; sea; sir; sky; state; stone; thought; time; want; water; way; years cache: 2064.txt plain text: 2064.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 21869 author: Shorter, Clement King title: Immortal Memories date: None words: 57095 flesch: 73 summary: In the opening pages of Boswell's _Johnson_ Does any one suppose that Pope in his _Essay on Man_, that Johnson in his _London_ or that Goldsmith in his _Deserted Village_ had any idea other than the production of splendid phrases. keywords: age; anglian; author; berlin; biography; books; borrow; boswell; brother; century; charles; city; countess; cowper; crabbe; day; death; der; des; east; edition; england; english; fact; family; father; fine; french; friend; george; good; great; helen; history; introduction; johnson; lassalle; letters; library; lichfield; life; list; literature; london; lord; love; man; men; miss; mother; mrs; new; norwich; place; poet; poetry; present; professor; read; scott; sir; thomas; time; translation; volumes; von; william; wordsworth; works; world; writer; years cache: 21869.txt plain text: 21869.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 2423 author: Piozzi, Hester Lynch title: Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life date: None words: 50149 flesch: 61 summary: It happened very comically that the moment this curious conversation passed, of which I was a silent auditress, was in the coach, in some distant province, either Shropshire or Derbyshire, I believe; and as soon as it was over, Mr. Johnson took out of his pocket a little book and read, while a gentleman of no small distinction for his birth and elegance suddenly rode up to the carriage, and paying us all his proper compliments, was desirous not to neglect Dr. Johnson; but observing that he did not see him, tapped him gently on the shoulder. The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study: nor can I think those characters the greatest which have most learning driven into their heads, any more than I can persuade myself to consider the River Jenisca as superior to the Nile, because the first receives near seventy tributary streams in the course of its unmarked progress to the sea, while the great parent of African plenty, flowing from an almost invisible source, and unenriched by any extraneous waters, except eleven nameless rivers, pours his majestic torrent into the ocean by seven celebrated mouths. keywords: acquaintance; attention; book; character; company; conversation; day; dear; death; delight; dinner; doctor; father; fellow; friend; general; gentleman; good; health; heart; hope; house; human; husband; ill; johnson; knowledge; lady; life; long; man; manner; master; men; mind; mother; occasion; people; person; pleasure; poor; sir; story; subject; talk; thought; thrale; time; truth; verses; way; wit; world; years cache: 2423.txt plain text: 2423.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 29324 author: Courtenay, John title: A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) date: None words: 10346 flesch: 70 summary: Had this writing been published in a pagan or _popish_ nation, who are _justly_ impatient of all indignity offered to the established religion of their country, no doubt but the author would have received the punishment he deserved.--But the fate of this impious buffoon is very different; for in a protestant kingdom, zealous of their civil and religious immunities, he has not only escaped affronts and the effects of publick resentment, but has been caressed and patronised by persons of great figure of all denominations. On the publication of _London_ in 1738, Mr. Pope was so much struck by it, that he desired Mr. Dodsley, his bookseller, to find out the author. keywords: angeles; boswell; california; clark; courtenay; introduction; james; johnson; library; life; los; malone; man; oxford; papers; poem; review; samuel; time; truth; university; william cache: 29324.txt plain text: 29324.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 37764 author: Callender, James Thomson title: Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from His Works date: None words: 35219 flesch: 74 summary: To tell such people, that the word _porridgepot_ is compounded of _porridge_, and _pot_, is to insult their understandings; and of his Greek and Saxon roots, not one individual in a thousand can read even a single letter. The science of _harmonical_ sounds. keywords: author; book; callender; character; common; definitions; deformities; dictionary; doctor; dr johnson; dryden; edition; english; gray; great; human; ibid; johnson; language; learning; life; man; men; nature; page; poem; poetry; pope; preface; rambler; reader; rest; review; samuel; shakespeare; thing; time; university; water; woman; words; work; world cache: 37764.txt plain text: 37764.txt item: #13 of 18 id: 42971 author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron title: Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson date: None words: 42499 flesch: 72 summary: Mrs. Johnson had been given over by the physicians. (Contains the most vivid account of Boswell's manner when in company with Dr. Johnson.) keywords: author; book; boswell; century; day; dictionary; edinburgh; edition; england; english; essay; fame; father; friends; history; home; house; human; johnson; knowledge; language; learning; letters; life; literature; little; lives; london; lord; love; macaulay; man; men; mind; mrs; oxford; parliament; people; place; pope; samuel; sir; society; thought; time; trevelyan; volumes; work; world; writer; years cache: 42971.txt plain text: 42971.txt item: #14 of 18 id: 45869 author: Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle) title: The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life date: None words: 41777 flesch: 77 summary: Of old Mr Johnson Boswell says that he was a pretty good Latin scholar, and a citizen so creditable as to be made one of the magistrates of Lichfield.... Mr Hammond asked Mr Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church and in the midst of so great a croud. keywords: book; boswell; club; company; conversation; day; dictionary; dinner; dr johnson; english; friend; garrick; goldsmith; good; house; johnson; joshua; langton; life; london; long; man; manner; men; mind; mr johnson; mrs; night; people; reynolds; samuel johnson; sir; sir joshua; street; talk; tea; thought; thrale; time; way; work; world; years cache: 45869.txt plain text: 45869.txt item: #15 of 18 id: 6018 author: Boswell, James title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. date: None words: 125916 flesch: 77 summary: I was not afraid that our curious expedition would be prevented by such apprehensions; but I doubted that it would not be possible to prevail on Dr Johnson to relinquish, for some time, the felicity of a London life, which, to a man who can enjoy it with full intellectual relish, is apt to make existence in any narrower sphere seem insipid or irksome. [footnote: Our friend Edmund Burke, who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr Johnson, on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks, upon my repeating this passage to him, exclaimed, 'Oil of vitriol!' keywords: account; attention; bed; boat; book; boswell; breakfast; castle; character; chief; church; col; company; conversation; country; day; deal; death; different; dinner; dr johnson; dr macleod; duke; edinburgh; england; english; erse; evening; family; father; fellow; footnote; friend; general; gentleman; good; great; head; high; highland; history; home; honour; house; island; james; justice; kind; king; lady; laird; late; learning; left; letter; life; london; lord; lordship; m'lean; m'leod; m'queen; macdonald; malcolm; man; manner; men; miles; mind; monboddo; money; morning; mr johnson; mrs; mull; night; opinion; people; place; power; present; rasay; respect; road; room; samuel johnson; saying; scotland; sea; set; shore; sir; sky; small; state; subject; talk; thing; thought; time; way; woman; world; years; young cache: 6018.txt plain text: 6018.txt item: #16 of 18 id: 8918 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 date: None words: 252486 flesch: 76 summary: Forty-four years later Horace Walpole wrote (_Letters_, ix. 319), 'I never knew Johnson wrote the speeches in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ till he died.' Dr. _Watts_ was one of the first who taught the Dissenters to write and speak like other men, by shewing them that elegance might consist with piety[917]. keywords: a.d; account; acknowl; ante; april; attention; aug; author; best; book; boswell; burney; cave; character; chesterfield; church; college; come; common; company; conversation; copy; country; course; croker; day; days; dear; death; dec; degree; dictionary; doubt; edition; england; english; essay; father; favour; feb; following; french; friend; friend mr; garrick; general; genius; gentleman; george; goldsmith; good; great; hand; hawkins; hebrides; history; honour; hope; horace; house; human; iii; johnson; joshua; journal; july; june; kind; king; knowledge; lady; langton; language; late; latin; learning; left; letter; lichfield; life; life johnson; lines; literature; london; lord; love; mag; magazine; malone; man; manner; march; master; memoirs; men; merit; michael johnson; mind; miss; mother; mrs; murphy; nature; near; night; note; nov; number; oct; opinion; original; oxford; page; paper; passage; people; person; piozzi; place; pleasure; poem; poet; pope; post; power; preface; present; publick; rambler; read; reason; reynolds; samuel johnson; savage; school; second; sept; servant; set; sir; spirit; state; street; study; style; subject; talk; thing; thomas; thought; thrale; thy; time; truth; university; viii; walpole; warton; way; wife; wish; works; world; write; writing; years; young; ætat cache: 8918.txt plain text: 8918.txt item: #17 of 18 id: 9072 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 date: None words: 223300 flesch: 78 summary: On Saturday, the sixth of May, we dined by ourselves at the Mitre, and he dictated to me what follows, to obviate the complaint already mentioned[1112], which had been made in the form of an action in the Court of Session, by Dr. Memis, of Aberdeen, that in the same translation of a charter in which _physicians_ were mentioned, he was called _Doctor of Medicine_. If a man firmly believes that religion is an invaluable treasure[1293], he will consider a writer who endeavours to deprive mankind of it as a _robber_; he will look upon him as _odious_, though the infidel might think himself in the right. keywords: account; answer; ante; april; attention; aug; book; boswell; burke; character; church; company; conversation; country; court; croker; day; days; dear; death; degree; dinner; doctor; doubt; edition; england; english; esq; evening; family; father; fellow; following; french; friend; garrick; general; gentleman; george; goldsmith; good; government; great; half; hand; head; hebrides; high; history; home; honour; hope; horace; house; human; hume; iii; ill; instance; james; james boswell; johnson; journey; judge; june; kind; king; know; knowledge; lady; langton; language; law; learning; leave; left; letters; liberty; life; little; london; lord; love; man; manner; march; mean; memoirs; men; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; nature; nay; note; occasion; oct; opinion; original; oxford; particular; passage; people; piozzi; place; play; pleasure; poor; pope; post; power; present; publick; question; reason; respect; return; reynolds; right; room; sam; samuel johnson; saying; scotch; scotland; second; sept; servant; set; sir; sir joshua; society; state; subject; talk; temple; things; think; thought; thrale; time; town; truth; viii; walpole; want; way; wife; wish; works; world; write; writing; year; young cache: 9072.txt plain text: 9072.txt item: #18 of 18 id: 9180 author: Boswell, James title: Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 date: None words: 213129 flesch: 80 summary: [380] Johnson gives both _epocha_ and _epoch_ in his _Dictionary_. Horace Walpole wrote of the Parisians in 1765, (_Letters_, iv. keywords: account; ante; april; attention; aug; bishop; book; boswell; burke; care; case; character; children; church; common; company; conversation; country; court; croker; day; dear; death; degree; dinner; doctor; dodd; doubt; edition; england; english; evening; family; father; favour; following; friend; garrick; general; gentleman; george; goldsmith; good; great; hand; health; hebrides; history; home; honour; hope; horace; house; iii; james; johnson; journal; journey; july; june; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; lady; langton; language; late; law; learning; left; letters; life; little; lives; london; lord; love; madam; man; manner; march; means; memoirs; men; mind; miss; money; mrs; nature; nay; new; note; occasion; oct; opinion; passage; people; percy; piozzi; place; play; pleasure; poets; poor; pope; post; power; present; question; reason; respect; reynolds; right; samuel johnson; saw; scotland; second; sept; servant; set; sir; sir joshua; state; subject; talk; taylor; things; think; thought; thrale; time; truth; walpole; way; wife; wilkes; wine; wish; works; world; writing; years; young cache: 9180.txt plain text: 9180.txt