Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 3;Količine 1776–1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... seen in the time that we have to travel . We must , to be sure , see Rome , Naples , Florence , and Venice , and as much more as we can . ' ( Speaking with a tone of animation . ) When I expressed an earnest wish for his remarks on ...
... seen in the time that we have to travel . We must , to be sure , see Rome , Naples , Florence , and Venice , and as much more as we can . ' ( Speaking with a tone of animation . ) When I expressed an earnest wish for his remarks on ...
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... seen greater variety of characters ; and none could observe them better , as was evident from the strong , yet nice portraits which he often drew . I have fre- quently thought that if he had made out what the French call une catalogue ...
... seen greater variety of characters ; and none could observe them better , as was evident from the strong , yet nice portraits which he often drew . I have fre- quently thought that if he had made out what the French call une catalogue ...
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... seen him but once these twenty years . The tide of life has driven us different ways . ' I was sorry at the time to hear this ; but whoever quits the creeks of private connections , and fairly gets into the great ocean of London , will ...
... seen him but once these twenty years . The tide of life has driven us different ways . ' I was sorry at the time to hear this ; but whoever quits the creeks of private connections , and fairly gets into the great ocean of London , will ...
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... seen before , a list of errors in nine- teen pages . ' Johnson's Works , viii . 492. In the first edition of The Lives of the Poets the Doctor ' is called Dr. Saunders . So ambitious was Lord Lyttelton's accuracy that in the second ...
... seen before , a list of errors in nine- teen pages . ' Johnson's Works , viii . 492. In the first edition of The Lives of the Poets the Doctor ' is called Dr. Saunders . So ambitious was Lord Lyttelton's accuracy that in the second ...
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... seen him in one of his low characters , exclaimed , ' Com- ment ! je ne le crois pas . Ce n'est pas Monsieur Garrick , ce Grand Homme ! ' Garrick added , with an appearance of grave recollection , If I were to begin life again , I think ...
... seen him in one of his low characters , exclaimed , ' Com- ment ! je ne le crois pas . Ce n'est pas Monsieur Garrick , ce Grand Homme ! ' Garrick added , with an appearance of grave recollection , If I were to begin life again , I think ...
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Stran 453 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Stran 296 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Stran 453 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Stran 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Stran 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Stran 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Stran 85 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Stran 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Stran 268 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Stran 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?