The book Macaulay's Life of Johnson; was written by author Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Here you can read free online of Macaulay's Life of Johnson; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Macaulay's Life of Johnson; a good or bad book?
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His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." 20. 7. Johnson thus addresses the ambitious scholar : -«- " Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain. And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; . . , Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade, Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign o...n the passing world to turn thine eyes. And pause awhile from learning to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. " 64 NOTES. Johnson originally wrote garret instead of patron, which he substi- tuted after his experience with Chesterfield. The entire passage is largely autobiographical, and at a later period drew tears from Johnson himself. 24. I. These sketches in the Spectator are recommended by Ma- caulay in his Essay on Addison as select specimens of " the extent and variety of Addison's powers." For a brief description, see Essay on Addison, this series, pp.
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