Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... pleased with himself . ' London Mag . for 1782 , P. 454. His dedications were dedica- tions of friendship , not of flattery or servility . He dedicated his Tour to Corsica to Paoli , his Tour to the Hebrides to Malone , and his Life of ...
... pleased with himself . ' London Mag . for 1782 , P. 454. His dedications were dedica- tions of friendship , not of flattery or servility . He dedicated his Tour to Corsica to Paoli , his Tour to the Hebrides to Malone , and his Life of ...
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... pleased when he read : - ' Such were the working thoughts which swelled the breast Of generous Boswell ; when with nobler aim And views beyond the narrow beaten track By trivial fancy trod , he turned his course From polished Gallia's ...
... pleased when he read : - ' Such were the working thoughts which swelled the breast Of generous Boswell ; when with nobler aim And views beyond the narrow beaten track By trivial fancy trod , he turned his course From polished Gallia's ...
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... pleased with his society3 , and was just come from the Continent , where he was very generally admired . Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to ...
... pleased with his society3 , and was just come from the Continent , where he was very generally admired . Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to ...
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... pleased us ; whether it be that we are fatigued and In such passages as this we may generally assume that the gentleman , whose name is not given , is Boswell himself . See ante , i . 4 , and post , Oct. 16 , 1769 . * See post , 1780 ...
... pleased us ; whether it be that we are fatigued and In such passages as this we may generally assume that the gentleman , whose name is not given , is Boswell himself . See ante , i . 4 , and post , Oct. 16 , 1769 . * See post , 1780 ...
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... pleased to communicate to me : ' The circumstances of Mr. Pere- grine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in Lincolnshire ; the rent of his house , with two or three ...
... pleased to communicate to me : ' The circumstances of Mr. Pere- grine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in Lincolnshire ; the rent of his house , with two or three ...
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admiration Aetat Anec answered ante April April 15 April 28 asked authority Baretti Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character church compliments conversation Corsica Court Croker DEAR SIR dined edition England English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant Hume J. H. Burton JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson King lady Langton laugh learning Letters of Boswell Lichfield live London Lord Bute Lord Mansfield manner March March 21 Memoirs mentioned mind nation never observed opinion Oxford Paoli passage perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure poem Pope publick published reason Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotch Scotland seems Sept shewed Sir Joshua speak Streatham suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told wish write written wrote
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Stran 317 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Stran 78 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the coppers.
Stran 338 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Stran 3 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 119 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Stran 360 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Stran 313 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Stran 84 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Stran 321 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Stran 446 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...