Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 15
... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so , as to pass some time in Edinburgh ...
... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so , as to pass some time in Edinburgh ...
Stran 17
... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he could reason close . or wide , as he saw best for the moment . He could , when he chose it , be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation ; but ...
... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he could reason close . or wide , as he saw best for the moment . He could , when he chose it , be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation ; but ...
Stran 18
... gave some additional weight to the sterling metal of his conversation ' . His person was large , robust , I may say approaching to the gigantick , and grown unwieldy from corpulency . His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ...
... gave some additional weight to the sterling metal of his conversation ' . His person was large , robust , I may say approaching to the gigantick , and grown unwieldy from corpulency . His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ...
Stran 24
... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . ' We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that to shew all respect to the Sage , she would give up her own bed ...
... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . ' We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that to shew all respect to the Sage , she would give up her own bed ...
Stran 28
... gave the name to the new street in which Hume had taken a house by chalk- ing on his wall ST . DAVID STREET . ' Hume's " lass , " judging that it was not meant in honour or reverence , ran into the house much excited , to tell her ...
... gave the name to the new street in which Hume had taken a house by chalk- ing on his wall ST . DAVID STREET . ' Hume's " lass , " judging that it was not meant in honour or reverence , ran into the house much excited , to tell her ...
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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.