Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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acquaintance Aetat afterwards Anec ante April April 15 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote kind lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion passage Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travelling truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write
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Stran 173 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Stran 173 - 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 455 - 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 - All this may be; the People's voice is odd; It is, and it is not, the voice of God. 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. But let them own that greater faults than we...
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 85 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour, 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 455 - He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and...
Stran 167 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Stran 201 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?