Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 48
... drinking im- proved conversation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON : ' No , sir : before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty ...
... drinking im- proved conversation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON : ' No , sir : before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty ...
Stran 49
... drinking makes people talk better . ' JOHNSON : ' No , sir ; wine gives not light , gay , ideal hilarity , but ... drink- ing . ' JOHNSON : ' Perhaps contempt . And , sir , it is not necessary to be drunk oneself to relish the wit ...
... drinking makes people talk better . ' JOHNSON : ' No , sir ; wine gives not light , gay , ideal hilarity , but ... drink- ing . ' JOHNSON : ' Perhaps contempt . And , sir , it is not necessary to be drunk oneself to relish the wit ...
Stran 50
... drinking . JOHNSON : ' Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self - complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
... drinking . JOHNSON : ' Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self - complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
Stran 52
... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath . Of a person who differed from him in politics , ' he said , ' In private life he is a very honest gentleman ; but I ...
... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath . Of a person who differed from him in politics , ' he said , ' In private life he is a very honest gentleman ; but I ...
Stran 58
... 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 advertising phrase ) is of the stock of an ambassador ...
... 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 advertising phrase ) is of the stock of an ambassador ...
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acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne Auchinleck believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop censure character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session dear sir death Dilly dined dinner Dodd Dodd's doubt drink edition Elkanah Settle English favour Garrick gentleman GEORGE STEEVENS give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honour hope Hugo Grotius humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON Edinburgh judge KNOWLES lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo madam mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion pain Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets praise recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland sermons Seward Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Soame Jenyns Streatham style suppose sure talked Taylor tell things thought Thrale tion told truth uneasy Whig Wilkes William wine wish write written wrote