Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 35
... desire to excel in it . I am persuaded that , had Sir Isaac Newton applied to poetry , he would have made a very fine epick poem . I could as easily apply to law as to tragick poetry . ' BOSWELL . ' Yet , Sir , you did apply to tragick ...
... desire to excel in it . I am persuaded that , had Sir Isaac Newton applied to poetry , he would have made a very fine epick poem . I could as easily apply to law as to tragick poetry . ' BOSWELL . ' Yet , Sir , you did apply to tragick ...
Stran 41
... desire for new walls and change . ' I have hitherto called him Dr. William Robertson , to distinguish him from Dr. James Robertson , who is soon to make his appearance . But Principal , from his being the head of our college , is his ...
... desire for new walls and change . ' I have hitherto called him Dr. William Robertson , to distinguish him from Dr. James Robertson , who is soon to make his appearance . But Principal , from his being the head of our college , is his ...
Stran 64
... desires are fixed upon the past , without looking forward to the future , an incessant wish that something were otherwise than it has been , a tormenting and harassing want of some enjoyment or possession which we have lost , and which ...
... desires are fixed upon the past , without looking forward to the future , an incessant wish that something were otherwise than it has been , a tormenting and harassing want of some enjoyment or possession which we have lost , and which ...
Stran 68
... Hume's hands , apparently that the author might have his suggestions in preparing a second edition . Hume says : - ' First the addressing of our virtuous wishes and desires to He August 20 ] Want of Trees in Scotland . 69.
... Hume's hands , apparently that the author might have his suggestions in preparing a second edition . Hume says : - ' First the addressing of our virtuous wishes and desires to He August 20 ] Want of Trees in Scotland . 69.
Stran 97
... desire to get this book . Later on ( ante , iii . 104 ) he asked Boswell ' to be vigilant and get him Graham's Telemachus . ' 3 I am sure I have related this story exactly as Dr. Johnson told it to me ; but a friend who has often heard ...
... desire to get this book . Later on ( ante , iii . 104 ) he asked Boswell ' to be vigilant and get him Graham's Telemachus . ' 3 I am sure I have related this story exactly as Dr. Johnson told it to me ; but a friend who has often heard ...
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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.