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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... kind this evening , and said to me , " You have now lived five - and - twenty years , and you have employed them well . " " Alas , Sir , ( said I , ) I fear not . Do I know history ? Do I know mathematicks ? Do I know law ? " JOHNSON ...
... kind this evening , and said to me , " You have now lived five - and - twenty years , and you have employed them well . " " Alas , Sir , ( said I , ) I fear not . Do I know history ? Do I know mathematicks ? Do I know law ? " JOHNSON ...
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... kind of flutter , from imagining himself in the situation which he had just been hearing described , exclaimed , " Well , you acquitted yourself in this conversation better than I should have done ; for I should have bowed and stammered ...
... kind of flutter , from imagining himself in the situation which he had just been hearing described , exclaimed , " Well , you acquitted yourself in this conversation better than I should have done ; for I should have bowed and stammered ...
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... kind . " But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more.2 In the spring of this year , having published my " Account of Corsica , with the Journal of a Tour to that Island , " I returned to London , very desirous to ...
... kind . " But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more.2 In the spring of this year , having published my " Account of Corsica , with the Journal of a Tour to that Island , " I returned to London , very desirous to ...
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... kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book with- out being asked my opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an authour asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be ...
... kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book with- out being asked my opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an authour asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be ...
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... kind of sophistry in which he delighted to indulge himself , in opposition to the extreme laxity 1 [ Boswell had written towards the close of his book on Corsica , " On one of the days that my ague disturbed me least , I walked from the ...
... kind of sophistry in which he delighted to indulge himself , in opposition to the extreme laxity 1 [ Boswell had written towards the close of his book on Corsica , " On one of the days that my ague disturbed me least , I walked from the ...
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admiration affectionate afterwards answered appeared asked authour Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON Boswell's called character church compliments conversation David Garrick DEAR SIR dined dinner Edinburgh edition eminent England English Erse favour Garrick gentleman George Steevens give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL Journey King lady Langton language learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nation never night Nonjuror observed occasion opinion Oxford pamphlet perhaps pleased pleasure poem political publick published reason remark Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed Sheridan shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Steevens Strahan Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth Whiggism Williams wish wonder write written wrote
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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.