The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Том 51852 |
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... seemed to be , as in the poet's dream- " A lurid light , a trampling throng- Sense of intolerable wrong . " The last gleams of romance in Highland life had been extin- guished at Culloden . The chief no longer boasted his coshir or ...
... seemed to be , as in the poet's dream- " A lurid light , a trampling throng- Sense of intolerable wrong . " The last gleams of romance in Highland life had been extin- guished at Culloden . The chief no longer boasted his coshir or ...
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... seemed to her to be intended for her amusement ; and when he stopped she fluttered , and made a little infantine noise , and a kind of signal for him to begin again . She would be held close to him ; which was a proof , from simple ...
... seemed to her to be intended for her amusement ; and when he stopped she fluttered , and made a little infantine noise , and a kind of signal for him to begin again . She would be held close to him ; which was a proof , from simple ...
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... seemed to me to have an unaccountable prejudice against Swift ; for I once took the liberty to ask him if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . He said to - day , " Swift is clear , but he is shallow . In ...
... seemed to me to have an unaccountable prejudice against Swift ; for I once took the liberty to ask him if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . He said to - day , " Swift is clear , but he is shallow . In ...
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... seemed to be much surprised when Dr. Johnson said it was easier to him to write poetry than to compose his Dictionary . than the other . His mind was less on the stretch in doing the one Besides , composing a Dictionary requires books ...
... seemed to be much surprised when Dr. Johnson said it was easier to him to write poetry than to compose his Dictionary . than the other . His mind was less on the stretch in doing the one Besides , composing a Dictionary requires books ...
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... seemed quite academical ; and we found in his house very comfortable and genteel accommodation.f THURSDAY , AUGUST 19 . 66 We rose much refreshed . I had with me a map of Scotland , a Bible which was given me by Lord Mountstuart when we ...
... seemed quite academical ; and we found in his house very comfortable and genteel accommodation.f THURSDAY , AUGUST 19 . 66 We rose much refreshed . I had with me a map of Scotland , a Bible which was given me by Lord Mountstuart when we ...
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Страница 19 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. — 'Nay (said Dr. Johnson) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Страница 13 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
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Страница 17 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Страница 56 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Страница 259 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Страница 68 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Страница 3 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Страница 39 - I never read of a hermit, but in imagination I kiss his feet : never of a monastery, but I could fall on my knees, and kiss the pavement.