Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 страници |
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... wrote to him when he was a boy at school : — 66 CLAPHAM , May 28 , 1813 . My dear Tom : I am very happy to hear that you have so far advanced in your different prize exercises , and with such little fatigue . I know you write with great ...
... wrote to him when he was a boy at school : — 66 CLAPHAM , May 28 , 1813 . My dear Tom : I am very happy to hear that you have so far advanced in your different prize exercises , and with such little fatigue . I know you write with great ...
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... been reading . Before he was eight years old he wrote for his own amusement a " Compendium of Universal History , " which filled about a quire of paper 66 and gave a tolerably connected view of leading events from INTRODUCTION xi.
... been reading . Before he was eight years old he wrote for his own amusement a " Compendium of Universal History , " which filled about a quire of paper 66 and gave a tolerably connected view of leading events from INTRODUCTION xi.
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... wrote : " I often regret , and even acutely , my want of a senior wrangler's knowledge of physics and mathe- matics ; and I regret still more some habits of mind which a senior wrangler is pretty certain to possess . ' In fact , the ...
... wrote : " I often regret , and even acutely , my want of a senior wrangler's knowledge of physics and mathe- matics ; and I regret still more some habits of mind which a senior wrangler is pretty certain to possess . ' In fact , the ...
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... wrote in later life . But Ma- caulay's real literary fame began in 1825 , when he wrote his first essay for the Edinburgh Review . This famous Review was at that time the leading periodical in Great Britain , and exerted a literary and ...
... wrote in later life . But Ma- caulay's real literary fame began in 1825 , when he wrote his first essay for the Edinburgh Review . This famous Review was at that time the leading periodical in Great Britain , and exerted a literary and ...
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... among the natives of India . Mean- while he wrote a few essays for the Review , and read prodigiously . In 1838 he returned to England . He was at once re- elected to Parliament as member for Edinburgh , and for xviii INTRODUCTION.
... among the natives of India . Mean- while he wrote a few essays for the Review , and read prodigiously . In 1838 he returned to England . He was at once re- elected to Parliament as member for Edinburgh , and for xviii INTRODUCTION.
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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.