Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... appearance . Garrick . Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakspeare . Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scotland till the Union . Life of a sailor . The ...
... appearance . Garrick . Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakspeare . Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scotland till the Union . Life of a sailor . The ...
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... appearance on a sheltie . History of his own Times . histories . His curious Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's Difference between dedications and October 5. People may come to do anything by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector ...
... appearance on a sheltie . History of his own Times . histories . His curious Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's Difference between dedications and October 5. People may come to do anything by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector ...
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... appearance * . I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days after we had set out from Edinburgh ; but I have luckily after describing how the filth is thus thrown out , says : -The maid calls gardy loo to the passengers ...
... appearance * . I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days after we had set out from Edinburgh ; but I have luckily after describing how the filth is thus thrown out , says : -The maid calls gardy loo to the passengers ...
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... appearance of listening to him . His motions 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 ...
... appearance of listening to him . His motions 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 ...
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... appearance of a new face upon the streets was at once remarked , and numbers busied themselves in finding out who and what the stranger was . ' It was on this visit to the parlia- ment - house , that Mr. Henry Erskine ( brother of Lord ...
... appearance of a new face upon the streets was at once remarked , and numbers busied themselves in finding out who and what the stranger was . ' It was on this visit to the parlia- ment - house , that Mr. Henry Erskine ( brother of Lord ...
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Aberdeen ancient ante asked Auchinleck August August 15 August 21 authour believe boat Boswell Boswell's breakfast called castle church conversation Croker dinner Duke Dunvegan DUPPA Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gentleman heard Hebrides Highland honour Horace Horace Walpole Hume Inchkenneth island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Journey King Kingsburgh Lady Laird land learning lived London looked Lord Lord Monboddo M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night observed October October 14 October 23 opinion passage Piozzi Letters pleased Prince publick Rasay rock Samuel Johnson says Scotland September September 13 servant shew Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale told took Tour walked WALTER SCOTT wish writing young
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Stran 342 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Stran 339 - 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...
Stran 305 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Stran 12 - He was prone to superstition but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He had a loud voice and a slow deliberate utterance which no doubt gave some additional weight to the sterling metal of his conversation.
Stran 339 - ... 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, B,y forms...
Stran 109 - 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.
Stran 11 - He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church of England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; and had, perhaps, at an early period, narrowed his mind somewhat too much, both as to religion and politics.
Stran 204 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Stran 305 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae...
Stran 43 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.