The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Količina 11835 |
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Stran 32
... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . " Her piety was not inferior to her understanding ; and to her must be ascribed ...
... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . " Her piety was not inferior to her understanding ; and to her must be ascribed ...
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... Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated Sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene , as it ...
... Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated Sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene , as it ...
Stran 42
... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many particulars of his boyish days ; and assured me that he never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and divert- ing other boys from their business . He seemed to ( 1 ) More than a ...
... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many particulars of his boyish days ; and assured me that he never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and divert- ing other boys from their business . He seemed to ( 1 ) More than a ...
Stran 43
... Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble attend- ants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped , while he sat upon his back , and one on each side supported him ; and thus he was borne triumphant ...
... Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble attend- ants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped , while he sat upon his back , and one on each side supported him ; and thus he was borne triumphant ...
Stran 44
... Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordi- nary diversions ...
... Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordi- nary diversions ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Including a Journal of His Tour to the ... James Boswell Predogled ni na voljo - 2019 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Including a Journal of His Tour to the ... James Boswell Predogled ni na voljo - 2019 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Including a Journal of His Tour to the ... Predogled ni na voljo - 2020 |
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Stran 226 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...
Stran 260 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Graeco fonte cadant, parce detorta.
Stran 105 - ... and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained.
Stran 235 - 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.
Stran 146 - Arts in their University. They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he is of so long a journey ; and will venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary : choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers ; which has been his only subsistence...
Stran 176 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
Stran 69 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Stran 22 - I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought ; by which mankind are enabled, as it were, to see him live, and to ' live o'er each scene' * with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life.
Stran 142 - Has heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear Oppression's insolence no more.
Stran 45 - ... when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that [adds his Lordship] spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.