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The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. With Additions and Notes, by J.w. Croker (5)
The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Additions and Notes by Jw Croker - 5 Author:James Boswell Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fre... more »e trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Whose ardent hope, intensely fix'd on high, Saw future bliss with intellectual eye. Still in his breast Religion held her sway, Disclosing visions of celestial day; And gave his soul, amidst this world of strife, The blest reversion of eternal life: By this dispell'd, each doubt and horror flies, And calm at length in holy peace he dies. The sculptured trophy, and imperial bust, That proudly rise around his hallow'd dust, Shall mouldering fall, by Time's slow hand decay'd, But the bright meed of virtue ne'er shall fade. Exulting genius stamps his sacred name, Enroll'd for ever in the dome of fame. No. VII. [character of Dr. Johnson, by Dr. Horne, Bishop of Norwich, published in the Olla Podrida, and referred to in vol. v. p. 359-1 , " When a friend told Johnson that he was much blamed for having unveiled the weakness of Pope, ' Sir,' said he, ' if one man undertake to write the life of another, he undertakes to exhibit his true and real character; but this can be done only by a faithful and accurate delineation of the particulars which discriminate that character.' " The biographers of this great man seem conscientiously to have followed the rule thus laid clown by him, and have very fairly communicated all they knew, whether to his advantage, or otherwise. Much concern, disquietude, and offence have been occasioned by this their conduct in the minds of many, who apprehend that the cause in which he stood forth will suffer by the infirmities of the advocate being thus exposed to the prying and mal...« less