The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... leaves London for Scotland Boswell presses Johnson to fulfil his promise of visiting Scotland Johnson leaves London , August 6th . Reaches Edinburgh , August 14th Sets out on his return to London , November 22nd Reaches London ...
... leaves London for Scotland Boswell presses Johnson to fulfil his promise of visiting Scotland Johnson leaves London , August 6th . Reaches Edinburgh , August 14th Sets out on his return to London , November 22nd Reaches London ...
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... leave Oxford . And drive on through Blenheim Park Johnson's love of a good inn And of driving in a post chaise 248 ... leaving • 283-284 286 287 293 home . • 294 Johnson shows his aversion to being regarded as the translator of Lobo's ...
... leave Oxford . And drive on through Blenheim Park Johnson's love of a good inn And of driving in a post chaise 248 ... leaving • 283-284 286 287 293 home . • 294 Johnson shows his aversion to being regarded as the translator of Lobo's ...
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... leaves London for Scotland 353 Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith 355 The Round Robin 357 358-367 1777 . Æt . 68 . Letters to and from Boswell Johnson proposes to study vigorously , particularly Greek and Latin . His approval of Blair's ...
... leaves London for Scotland 353 Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith 355 The Round Robin 357 358-367 1777 . Æt . 68 . Letters to and from Boswell Johnson proposes to study vigorously , particularly Greek and Latin . His approval of Blair's ...
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... leaves Ashbourne , where he had much increased . Letters to and from Boswell Letter from Johnson to S. Welch Letters to and from Boswell Boswell's seventh visit to London Johnson's liberality . Johnson and Boswell at Streatham Strict ...
... leaves Ashbourne , where he had much increased . Letters to and from Boswell Letter from Johnson to S. Welch Letters to and from Boswell Boswell's seventh visit to London Johnson's liberality . Johnson and Boswell at Streatham Strict ...
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... leave to trouble you with a remark on a passage of it , in which I am a little misrepresented . Be not alarmed ; the misrepresentation is not im- putable to you . Not having the book at hand , I cannot specify the page , but I suppose ...
... leave to trouble you with a remark on a passage of it , in which I am a little misrepresented . Be not alarmed ; the misrepresentation is not im- putable to you . Not having the book at hand , I cannot specify the page , but I suppose ...
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Страница 190 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Страница 266 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Страница 171 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Страница 457 - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies ! " His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.
Страница 33 - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
Страница 60 - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
Страница 18 - Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
Страница 513 - Follow me and hear a lecture in philosophy:' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar:' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates.
Страница 423 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Страница 349 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.