This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Barons who wrested the Magna Charta from King John, or those men who smote King George with the Declaration of Independence. In an age of sycophancy gone mad, when literary men were nothing more than hangers belted at the side of some noble lord, Johnson wrote an author's declaration of independence. Hear it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Barons who wrested the Magna Charta from King John, or those men who smote King George with the Declaration of Independence. In an age of sycophancy gone mad, when literary men were nothing more than hangers belted at the side of some noble lord, Johnson wrote an author's declaration of independence. Hear it and feel proud of the man forever. And his was the hand that opened the door to author's self-respect, and changed genius from a court appendage to an initial force in society, self-respecting and self-relying. All honor to irascible, trumpet-voiced, pock-scarred, truculent old Johnson! He had a flinty independence which in its day was of more worth to authorship and to manhood in general than mines of gold. And he was a sturdy Christian. He believed in God. Atheism he gave no ear to nor had any patience with. In that brutal way of his he would settle on the infidel with a thousand-ton weight, and blatant infidels there were little accessible to the finer courtesies, and flamboyant with infinite assurance then as now. Bolingbroke and Bayles and Paine were vociferous as sea-gulls; and the value of this old autocrat's maintenance of the faith in the face of this deluging unbelief appears like an apostolate. Wesley was exorcising the demon from society, and Johnson, his contemporary, was making Doubt sit for a moment in squelched silence. Read Boswell, and find we may take the epithet applied to Ben Jonson and apply it to the writer of lexicon and poets' lives and saver of brave and brusque and true words, out of a true heart, "O rare Boswell's Johnson!" MELROSE ABBEY ON A SABBATH EVENING. For six and thirty hours there had been a drench of rain such as by centuries of practice Scotland has learned to pour out; and, in consequence, the Abbey...
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