Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 83
... perhaps requires an apology . Many of my readers , I doubt not , will admit that a critical discussion of a passage in a favourite classic is very engaging . it is a land of famine . But they amused ET . 67 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 83.
... perhaps requires an apology . Many of my readers , I doubt not , will admit that a critical discussion of a passage in a favourite classic is very engaging . it is a land of famine . But they amused ET . 67 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 83.
Stran 84
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. it is a land of famine . But they amused themselves with persevering in the old jokes . When I claimed a superiority for Scotland over England in one respect , that no man can be arrested there for a debt ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. it is a land of famine . But they amused themselves with persevering in the old jokes . When I claimed a superiority for Scotland over England in one respect , that no man can be arrested there for a debt ...
Stran 100
... Lands are fitter for daughters than trades . ' Baretti went away from Thrale's in some whimsical fit of disgust , or ill - nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habitation , and as many ...
... Lands are fitter for daughters than trades . ' Baretti went away from Thrale's in some whimsical fit of disgust , or ill - nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habitation , and as many ...
Stran 129
... lands of Brolos quite cleared by this judgment , till a long account is made up of debts and interest on the one side , and rents on the other . I am , however , not much afraid of the balance . ' Macquarry's estates , Staffa and all ...
... lands of Brolos quite cleared by this judgment , till a long account is made up of debts and interest on the one side , and rents on the other . I am , however , not much afraid of the balance . ' Macquarry's estates , Staffa and all ...
Stran 179
... land is sold equally , whether a great family resides at home or not ; and if the rents of an estate be carried to London , they return again in the circulation of commerce ; nay , sir , we must perhaps allow , that carrying the able ...
... land is sold equally , whether a great family resides at home or not ; and if the rents of an estate be carried to London , they return again in the circulation of commerce ; nay , sir , we must perhaps allow , that carrying the able ...
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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