The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent & Company, 1901 |
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... suppose , was past five - and - twenty before he came to London . " Upon another occasion I talked to him on this subject , having myself taken some pains to improve my pronunciation , by the aid of the late Mr. Love , of Drury - lane ...
... suppose , was past five - and - twenty before he came to London . " Upon another occasion I talked to him on this subject , having myself taken some pains to improve my pronunciation , by the aid of the late Mr. Love , of Drury - lane ...
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... suppose , Sir , you are an American . " Why so , Sir ? ” ( said his Lordship . ) " Because , Sir , ( replied the shopkeeper , ) you speak neither English nor Scotch , but something different from both , which I conclude is the language ...
... suppose , Sir , you are an American . " Why so , Sir ? ” ( said his Lordship . ) " Because , Sir , ( replied the shopkeeper , ) you speak neither English nor Scotch , but something different from both , which I conclude is the language ...
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... suppose that passage to be metaphorical , many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are BOSWELL . " I think , Sir , that is a very rational supposition . " ' Why ...
... suppose that passage to be metaphorical , many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are BOSWELL . " I think , Sir , that is a very rational supposition . " ' Why ...
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... suppose that the angel of the LORD went about and stabbed each of them with a dagger , or knocked them on the head , man by man . " 1 Mr. Samuel Paterson , eminent for his knowledge of books . • Mr. Paterson , in a pamphlet , produced ...
... suppose that the angel of the LORD went about and stabbed each of them with a dagger , or knocked them on the head , man by man . " 1 Mr. Samuel Paterson , eminent for his knowledge of books . • Mr. Paterson , in a pamphlet , produced ...
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... for drinking , if you suppose men in general to be liars . But , Sir , I would not keep company with a fellow , who lyes as long as he is sober , and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word A. D. 1772 21 ÆTAT . 63.
... for drinking , if you suppose men in general to be liars . But , Sir , I would not keep company with a fellow , who lyes as long as he is sober , and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word A. D. 1772 21 ÆTAT . 63.
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Страница 346 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Страница 348 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Страница 101 - MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Страница 350 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Страница 423 - Johnson's conversation before dinner, as Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of the Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus : " CHAP. LXXII. Concerning Snakes. " There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.
Страница 18 - Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.
Страница 127 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Страница 439 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Страница 204 - 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 364 - When I first entered Ranelagh, it gave an expansion and gay sensation to my mind, such as I never experienced any where else. But, as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army, and considered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home and think ; but that the thoughts of each individual there, would be distressing when alone.