The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.T. Cadwell and W. Davies, 1807 - 460 страници |
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... heard , from one whom he tells us , in his Lives of the Poets , Gray found " a poet , a philosopher , and a good man . " My Lord Elibank did not answer my letter to his lordship for some time . The reason will ap- pear , when we come to ...
... heard , from one whom he tells us , in his Lives of the Poets , Gray found " a poet , a philosopher , and a good man . " My Lord Elibank did not answer my letter to his lordship for some time . The reason will ap- pear , when we come to ...
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... heard a late baronet , of some dis- tinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . " The peril is ...
... heard a late baronet , of some dis- tinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . " The peril is ...
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... heard Burke say , in the course of an evening , ten good things , each of which would have served a noted wit ( whom he named ) to live upon for a twelvemonth . I find , since the former edition , that some persons have objected to the ...
... heard Burke say , in the course of an evening , ten good things , each of which would have served a noted wit ( whom he named ) to live upon for a twelvemonth . I find , since the former edition , that some persons have objected to the ...
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... heard him repeating here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ballad , Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night : " And ran him through the fair body ! " We returned to my house , where there met him , at dinner , the Duchess of ...
... heard him repeating here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ballad , Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night : " And ran him through the fair body ! " We returned to my house , where there met him , at dinner , the Duchess of ...
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... heard a Latin grace , among so many learned men : we had always a Latin grace at Oxford . I believe I can repeat it . " Which he did , as giving the learned men in one place a specimen of what was done by the learned men in another ...
... heard a Latin grace , among so many learned men : we had always a Latin grace at Oxford . I believe I can repeat it . " Which he did , as giving the learned men in one place a specimen of what was done by the learned men in another ...
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afterwards ancient appeared asked Auchinleck believe better boat Boswell breakfast called castle church conversation Court of Session DEAR SIR dined dinner Duke Duke of Argyle Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journal journey Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird learned lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Monboddo M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed opinion passed pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect sail Samuel Johnson Scotland second sight servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought tion Tobermorie told took Tour walked Whig wish write young
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Страница 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Страница 357 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Страница 18 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Страница 26 - 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 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation ;" — he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his mission was introduced, and attested ; a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and...
Страница 87 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the...
Страница 105 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Страница 403 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects , and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Страница 129 - No, sir. It would be called so in a book ; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other.
Страница 244 - M'Pherson's Ossian to be more like the original than Pope's Homer. JOHNSON. " Well, sir, this is just what I always maintained. He has found names, and stories, and phrases, nay passages in old songs, and with them has blended his own compositions, and so made what he gives to the world as the translation of an ancient poem...