Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... opinions in legal cases , most of the let- ters , and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell's day than now . I have kept in mind an old habit , common enough , I dare say , among its ...
... opinions in legal cases , most of the let- ters , and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell's day than now . I have kept in mind an old habit , common enough , I dare say , among its ...
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... opinion , though comparatively unimportant , should get a hearing . In general , Boswell's faults are easily noticed , and have been too much talked about . He was morbid , restless , self - conscious , vain , insinuating ; and , poor ...
... opinion , though comparatively unimportant , should get a hearing . In general , Boswell's faults are easily noticed , and have been too much talked about . He was morbid , restless , self - conscious , vain , insinuating ; and , poor ...
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... opinion one must reckon in considering any important matter of his day . His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men . ' The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it . ' ' Why , Sir , you ...
... opinion one must reckon in considering any important matter of his day . His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men . ' The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it . ' ' Why , Sir , you ...
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... opinion which he has given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preser- vation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
... opinion which he has given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preser- vation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
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... opinion , that minute particulars are frequently character- istick , and always amusing , when they relate to a distin- guished man . I am therefore exceedingly unwilling that any thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend ...
... opinion , that minute particulars are frequently character- istick , and always amusing , when they relate to a distin- guished man . I am therefore exceedingly unwilling that any thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards agreeable answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better BOSWELL Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink Edited eminent favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind morning never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure poem Poets pounds praise Professor of English publick recollect Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks University walked Whig Wilkes wine wish wonderful write wrote
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Stran 547 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd: Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Stran 62 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord. " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Stran 104 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Stran 224 - Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man.
Stran 509 - Here was exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's Comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson ; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Stran 542 - I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Stran 294 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Stran 18 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions, such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Stran 200 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, Sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH.
Stran 21 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement: " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.