Though the limits of this work would not allow long abstracts of these secondary lives, yet some characteristical circumstances are inserted, that these memoirs might not sink into a bare necrology, or barren list of dates and names.
During his long exile in France, he applied himself to study with his characteristical ardor; and there he formed and chiefly executed the plan of a great philosophical work.
That delicacy of diction is characteristical of a man of fashion and good company.
In the evening, Johnson, being in very good spirits, entertained us with several characteristical portraits.
Of this I informed my illustrious friend, in characteristical warm terms, in a letter dated the 30th of September, from Leeds.
Of this, besides the general tenor of his conduct in society, some characteristicalinstances may be mentioned.
Footnote 89: Surely he might have selected for the basso rilievos about the statue of Horace ornaments more manly and characteristical of his genius.
Amidst the melancholy clouds which hung over the dying Johnson, his characteristical manner shewed itself on different occasions.
God in his heart; it is no characteristicalnote to another of my Sonship with God.
It is no characteristical note to another, of my sonship with God.
The part which Mr. Binning is reported to have acted on this occasion, was no less characteristical of him.
In our ideas of substances we have not the liberty, as in mixed modes, to frame what combinations we think fit, to be the characteristical notes to rank and denominate things by.
Of sensible substances there are two sorts: one of organized bodies, which are propagated by seed; and in these the SHAPE is that which to us is the leading quality, and most characteristical part, that determines the species.
But the difference of their tempers made the characteristical distinction between them.
The Frivolous and the Interested (might a satirist say) are the characteristical features of the age; they are visible even in the essays of our philosophers.
Wherever a word originally Latin has been transmitted to us through the medium of the French I have written it with the characteristical u.
To the minute selection of characteristical circumstances, for which the ancients were remarkable, he added a philosophical research, and the most perspicuous and energetick language.
Sir Joshua told me a pleasant characteristicalanecdote of Johnson about the time of their first acquaintance.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom I was obliged for my information concerning this excursion, mentions a very characteristical anecdote of Johnson while at Plymouth.
This appears indeed to form the characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and historians, compared with the modern.
These have a certain resemblance to one another, so far as they are all of them connectives; yet there are also characteristical differences by which they may in general be easily distinguished.
This appears indeed to form the characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and historians, and the modern.
The chief characteristical difference between the indicative and the subjunctive mood, is, that in the latter the verb is not inflected at all, in the different persons: IND.
The first lines of this Prologue are strongly characteristical of the dismal gloom of his mind; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings.
In Euripides we find the essence of the ancient tragedy no longer pure and unmixed; its characteristical features are already in part defaced.
Whenever the musical or the fanciful preponderates, the characteristical necessarily falls into the background.
The first part of Henry the Fourth is particularly brilliant in the serious scenes, from the contrast between two young heroes, Prince Henry and Percy (with the characteristicalname of Hotspur.
The story of Lear and his daughters was left by Shakspeare exactly as he found it in a fabulous tradition, with all the features characteristical of the simplicity of old times.
This promise, I believe, is the characteristical one of those Paschal conversations; it is that which distinguishes them from our Lord's discourses to the multitude.
When he visited it, a circumstance occurred which was trulycharacteristical of our great Lexicographer.
I have preserved this inscription[645], though of no great value, thinking it characteristical of a man who has made some noise in the world.
A popular origin cannot therefore be the characteristical distinction of a popular representative.
The Correspondence between Miss Howe and Clarissa, with some characteristical Letters of each of the Harlowes, as these were then his principal Actors, chiefly compose the two first Volumes.
Nor does the Author fail more in the preserving the characteristical Difference of Stile in the Writings of Mowbray, Belford and Lovelace.
His engraved portrait, with which he has favoured me, has a motto truely characteristical of his disposition, 'Nemo sibi vivat.
Such transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
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