Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 110 страници |
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... Italian , Spanish , English -it was all one . The following is a list of the books he went through in the original language while on a voyage to India at the age of thirty - four : Homer's " Iliad " and " Odyssey ; " Virgil's " Eneid ...
... Italian , Spanish , English -it was all one . The following is a list of the books he went through in the original language while on a voyage to India at the age of thirty - four : Homer's " Iliad " and " Odyssey ; " Virgil's " Eneid ...
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... Italian , French , Dutch , Spanish , and Persian . In a single check Macaulay received from his English publishers , as part of his share of the proceeds , the amazing sum of $ 100,000 . 66 The third and fourth The fifth volume , un ...
... Italian , French , Dutch , Spanish , and Persian . In a single check Macaulay received from his English publishers , as part of his share of the proceeds , the amazing sum of $ 100,000 . 66 The third and fourth The fifth volume , un ...
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... Italy . Secretary at 1840. Essays on Lord Clive 1840. H. M. Stanley born . and the History of the Popes . the United States , vol . i . Holmes's Poems . Em- erson's Nature . Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella . Haw- thorne's Twice Told ...
... Italy . Secretary at 1840. Essays on Lord Clive 1840. H. M. Stanley born . and the History of the Popes . the United States , vol . i . Holmes's Poems . Em- erson's Nature . Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella . Haw- thorne's Twice Told ...
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... Italy . Secretary at War . ment for Edin- burgh . Visit to 1840 . State . Speech at Edinburgh . died . John Mor- ley and Walter Besant born . Essays on Lord Clive 1840. H. M. Stanley born . and the History of the Popes . Nickleby . Mer ...
... Italy . Secretary at War . ment for Edin- burgh . Visit to 1840 . State . Speech at Edinburgh . died . John Mor- ley and Walter Besant born . Essays on Lord Clive 1840. H. M. Stanley born . and the History of the Popes . Nickleby . Mer ...
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... Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon her ; and that the newspapers and magazines were filled with allusions to the Ephesian matron , and the 25 two pictures in " Hamlet . " He vehemently said that he would try to ...
... Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon her ; and that the newspapers and magazines were filled with allusions to the Ephesian matron , and the 25 two pictures in " Hamlet . " He vehemently said that he would try to ...
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Страница 51 - 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...
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Страница 34 - is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat : this shows he has good principles.
Страница 29 - 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 34 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Страница 41 - 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 36 - 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 35 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Страница xi - May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy days ; Then go dwell for ever near Him, See His face, and sing His praise...
Страница 29 - 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...