The Life of Samuel Johnson, Količina 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 |
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... Lady Grange -Poetry of Savages - French Literati - Prize Fighting - French and English Soldiers - Duel- ling - Change of Manners — Landed and trading Interests - Loval's Pyramid - Ulinish - Lord Orrery , & c . & c . , • 823 CHAPTER ...
... Lady Grange -Poetry of Savages - French Literati - Prize Fighting - French and English Soldiers - Duel- ling - Change of Manners — Landed and trading Interests - Loval's Pyramid - Ulinish - Lord Orrery , & c . & c . , • 823 CHAPTER ...
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... lady of the house that he was going ; and did not much like any of the contrivances by which ease has been lately introduced into society instead of ceremony , which had more of his approba- tion . Cards , dress , and dancing , however ...
... lady of the house that he was going ; and did not much like any of the contrivances by which ease has been lately introduced into society instead of ceremony , which had more of his approba- tion . Cards , dress , and dancing , however ...
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... lady , talk no more of this . Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense . " Mrs. Thrale then praised Garrick's talents for light gay poetry ; and , as a specimen , repeated his song in " Florizel and Perdita , " and dwelt with peculiar ...
... lady , talk no more of this . Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense . " Mrs. Thrale then praised Garrick's talents for light gay poetry ; and , as a specimen , repeated his song in " Florizel and Perdita , " and dwelt with peculiar ...
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James Boswell. JOHNSON , " Nay , my dear lady , this will never do . Poor David ! Smile with the simple ! -what folly is that ? And who would feed with the poor that can help it ? No , no ; let me smile with the wise , and feed with the ...
James Boswell. JOHNSON , " Nay , my dear lady , this will never do . Poor David ! Smile with the simple ! -what folly is that ? And who would feed with the poor that can help it ? No , no ; let me smile with the wise , and feed with the ...
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... lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare , being mentioned : REYNOLDS . “ I think that essay does her honour . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; it does her honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not ...
... lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare , being mentioned : REYNOLDS . “ I think that essay does her honour . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; it does her honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not ...
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ancient appeared asked believe boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle character church conversation court court of session DEAR dined dinner Duke Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy Hebrides Highland honour hope humour Inchkenneth island James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson king Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird land Langton late laughed learning letter Lichfield live London looked Lord Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo M'Lean M'Queen Macdonald Macleod Malcolm manner mentioned mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed opinion pleased Portree pretty Prince Prince Charles Rasay remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland SCOTT seemed servant Shakspeare Sir Allan Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell things thought Thrale tion told took walked wish write wrote young
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Stran 424 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Stran 188 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Stran 75 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Stran 94 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Stran 261 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Stran 50 - 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 387 - There is no arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Stran 261 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Stran 145 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Stran 251 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.