Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 страници |
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... Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in Union College . With Portrait of Milton . POPE'S HOMER'S ILIAD . Books I. , IV . , XXII . , AND XXIV . Edited by WILLIAM H. MAXWELL , A.M. , Superintendent of Public In- struction , Brooklyn , N. Y. ...
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... Professor of the English Language and Literature in Dartmouth College . With Portrait of Cooper , FOR STUDY . SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH . Edited by JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY , Ph.D. , Professor of the English Language in Brown University . With ...
... Professor of the English Language and Literature in Dartmouth College . With Portrait of Cooper , FOR STUDY . SHAKSPERE'S MACBETH . Edited by JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY , Ph.D. , Professor of the English Language in Brown University . With ...
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... ' ENGLISH CLASSICS EDITED BY GEORGE RICE CARPENTER , A.B. PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE LORD MACAULAY LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LONGMANS ' ENGLISH CLASSICS With full Notes , Introductions ,
... ' ENGLISH CLASSICS EDITED BY GEORGE RICE CARPENTER , A.B. PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE LORD MACAULAY LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LONGMANS ' ENGLISH CLASSICS With full Notes , Introductions ,
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... Professor of English in Harvard University , and Notes by William Lyon Phelps , Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Eng- lish in Yale University . SHAKSPERE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . Edited by George Pierce Baker , A.B. , Assistant ...
... Professor of English in Harvard University , and Notes by William Lyon Phelps , Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Eng- lish in Yale University . SHAKSPERE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . Edited by George Pierce Baker , A.B. , Assistant ...
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... Professor in Ancient Literature " the year after it was founded , and about the same time Goldemith was elected - Professor in Ancient History . " Of this appoint- ment , Goldsmith , writing to his brother in January , 1770 , mid ...
... Professor in Ancient Literature " the year after it was founded , and about the same time Goldemith was elected - Professor in Ancient History . " Of this appoint- ment , Goldsmith , writing to his brother in January , 1770 , mid ...
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Страница 87 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Страница 83 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Страница 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Страница 51 - Johnson grown old, Johnson in the fulness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us than any other man in history. Everything about him, his coat, his wig, his figure, his face, his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, .the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...
Страница 74 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : "Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose, started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Страница 66 - But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Страница 65 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Страница 77 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Страница 44 - The old philosopher is still among us in the brown coat with the metal buttons and the shirt which ought to be at wash, blinking, puffing, rolling his head, drumming with his fingers, tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in oceans. No human being who has been more than seventy years in the grave is so well known to us. And it is but just to say that our intimate acquaintance with what he would himself have called the anfractuosities of his intellect and of his temper serves only...
Страница 9 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him.