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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Stran 27
... wine any day ' ( p . 235 ) . ' For near one - half of the time from thirty to sixty I scarce drank any strong liquor at all . It will be found that upon the whole I drank very little above a pint of wine , or at most not a quart one day ...
... wine any day ' ( p . 235 ) . ' For near one - half of the time from thirty to sixty I scarce drank any strong liquor at all . It will be found that upon the whole I drank very little above a pint of wine , or at most not a quart one day ...
Stran 40
... wine ; but he would not much care if it should sour . ' He said , he wished to see John Dennis's Critical Works , collected . Davies said they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise 2 . Davies said of a well - known ...
... wine ; but he would not much care if it should sour . ' He said , he wished to see John Dennis's Critical Works , collected . Davies said they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise 2 . Davies said of a well - known ...
Stran 41
... wine on conversation . 41 the highest compliment that ever was paid to a layman , by asking his pardon for repeating ... wine , every man feels himself happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not ...
... wine on conversation . 41 the highest compliment that ever was paid to a layman , by asking his pardon for repeating ... wine , every man feels himself happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not ...
Stran 42
... wine be like a bottle of beer , which is made brisker by being set before the fire ? ' ' Nay , ( said Johnson , laughing , ) I cannot answer that : that is too much for me . ' I observed , that wine did some people harm , by inflaming ...
... wine be like a bottle of beer , which is made brisker by being set before the fire ? ' ' Nay , ( said Johnson , laughing , ) I cannot answer that : that is too much for me . ' I observed , that wine did some people harm , by inflaming ...
Stran 52
... wine is , enables us to judge of its value , and to drink it with more relish but to have the produce of each vine of one vineyard , in the same year , kept separate , would serve no purpose . To know that our wine , ( to use an ...
... wine is , enables us to judge of its value , and to drink it with more relish but to have the produce of each vine of one vineyard , in the same year , kept separate , would serve no purpose . To know that our wine , ( to use an ...
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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?