The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Routledge and Sons, 1885 |
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... DEAR SIR , " APOLOGIES are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent . Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened either ...
... DEAR SIR , " APOLOGIES are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent . Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened either ...
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... Dear Sir , your affectionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , January 14 ... Sir , the truth is , they both drive coaches and six ; but Dryden's horses are either galloping or stumbling : Pope's ...
... Dear Sir , your affectionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , January 14 ... Sir , the truth is , they both drive coaches and six ; but Dryden's horses are either galloping or stumbling : Pope's ...
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... Sir , though you may know no science so well as to be able to teach it , and ... Sir , in the formulary and statutory part of law , a plodding blockhead may ... dear for what you get . You must not give a shilling's worth of court for a ...
... Sir , though you may know no science so well as to be able to teach it , and ... Sir , in the formulary and statutory part of law , a plodding blockhead may ... dear for what you get . You must not give a shilling's worth of court for a ...
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... Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile , " My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company ...
... Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile , " My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company ...
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... Sir , I am not obliged to do any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do . A man is to have part of his ... DEAR SIR , " WHAT your friends have done , that from your departure till now nothing has been heard of you , none of ...
... Sir , I am not obliged to do any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do . A man is to have part of his ... DEAR SIR , " WHAT your friends have done , that from your departure till now nothing has been heard of you , none of ...
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Страница 245 - Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another.
Страница 188 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Страница 267 - I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Страница 157 - Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which a lover is made to mistake his future father-in-law's house for an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable.
Страница 17 - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
Страница 341 - ... you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Страница 92 - ... a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, (he observed,) were pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination.
Страница 128 - ... Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown ? The crown has not power enough. When I say that all governments are alike, I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Страница 138 - 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 black lead pencil.