The forty-eight octavo pages, as he told Mr. Nichols , were written in one day and night.

I have written to him an invitation.

Johnson prevailed on Garrick to get her a benefit at the playhouse, and assisted her in preparing some poems she had written for the press, by both which means she obtained the sum of about £300.

The pathetic verses written by Johnson on his death, which happened suddenly three years before his own, shew with what tenderness of affection he regarded Levett.

"I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well.

Yet at this time, with all his aspirations after a state of greater perfectness, he was not able to bear the candour of Langton, who, when Johnson him desired to tell him sincerely wherein he had observed his life to be faulty, brought him a sheet of paper, on which were written many texts of Scripture, recommendatory of Christian meekness.

Lives of the Philosophers, written with a polite air, in such a manner as may divert as well as instruct.

Edition, 1810, it is said that this is rendered improbable by the account given of Colson, by Davies, in his life of Garrick, which was certainly written under Dr. Johnson's inspection, and, what relates to Colson, probably from Johnson's confirmation.

He had written And here the gout, half tyger, half a snake, Raged with a hundred teeth, a hundred stings; which was changed to The sleepless gout here counts the crowing cocks, A wolf now gnaws him, now a serpent stings.

The two short epistles on Benevolence and Taste, have ease and vigour enough to shew that he could, with a little practice, have written as well in the couplet measure as he did in blank verse.

From the narrative of his life written by one of these, the Reverend Archdeacon Cambridge, and prefixed to a handsome edition of his poems and his papers in The World, the above account has been chiefly extracted.

* Since the preceding preface was written, the Reverend Charles Wallace Howard, who had been commissioned by the Legislature of Georgia to procure from the public offices in London, a copy of the records of the Trustees for the settlement of the Province, and of other colonial documents, has returned, having successfully accomplished the object of his mission.

The name of the capital of South Carolina was originally written Charles-Town and Charles' Town.

Oglethorpe had been so impressed with what he had seen of the natives, that he had written home that "a door seemed opened for the conversion of the Indians."

The play bears some indications of having been written in 1613.

I am inclined to think that these passages, taken collectively, afford strong proof that The Costlie Whore was written in 1613twenty years before the date of publication.

Another brings Letters of commendation from the Constable of the Parish, or the Church-warden, of his good behaviour and bringing up, how he could write and reade written hand; further desiring that his Father would request my Father that his Fathers Sonne might marrie my Fathers Daughter and heele make her a joynter of a hundred pound a yeare, and beget three or foure fooles to boote.

But I cannot tell how to make you visible; you vanish away when I gaze at you, and I cannot net you in the meshes of beautiful verse!" Again and again he tried to write poems, tragedies, romances; but his indolence, his lack of ideas, his fastidiousness brought him to a standstill before half a dozen lines were written, and he would toss the all but virgin page into the fire.

The humor, wit, piety, and pathos of every age abound in the written stories of its people and children.

They can scarcely be called organic productions, for they may be written and published in sections, like one of the lowest classes of animals, which have no organization, but live equally well in parts, and run off in opposite directions when cut in halves.

Novels are perhaps too easily written to be of lasting value.

Human weakness makes poetry, philosophy, and history imperfect in execution, though they aspire to absolute beauty and truth; human weakness suggested the novel, which is imperfect in design, written as an amusement and relief, in despair of sounding the universe.

Their written reply was this: "We think they are; the same diversified qualities of intellect appear among them, as among other people."

Such is the impotency of written constitutions, where a sense of moral obligation is wanting to enforce them.

Those conditions are written down in the Constitution.