The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 strani |
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... appearance . Garrick . Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakspeare . Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scot- land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The ...
... appearance . Garrick . Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakspeare . Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scot- land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The ...
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... appearance on a sheltie . Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's History of his own Times . Difference between dedications and histories ...... 291 October 5. People may come to do any thing by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector ...
... appearance on a sheltie . Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's History of his own Times . Difference between dedications and histories ...... 291 October 5. People may come to do any thing by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector ...
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... appearance . My wife had tea ready for him , which it is well known he delighted to drink at all hours , particu- larly when sitting up late , and of which his able de- fence against Mr. Jonas Hanway should have ob- tained him a ...
... appearance . My wife had tea ready for him , which it is well known he delighted to drink at all hours , particu- larly when sitting up late , and of which his able de- fence against Mr. Jonas Hanway should have ob- tained him a ...
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... appearance . I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days after we had set out from Edin- burgh ; but I have luckily preserved a good many fragments of his Memorabilia from his very first evening in Scotland . We had ...
... appearance . I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days after we had set out from Edin- burgh ; but I have luckily preserved a good many fragments of his Memorabilia from his very first evening in Scotland . We had ...
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... appearance of listening to him . His motions seemed to her to be intended for her amuse- ment ; and when he stopped , she fluttered , and made a little infantine noise , and a kind of signal for him to begin again . She would be held ...
... appearance of listening to him . His motions seemed to her to be intended for her amuse- ment ; and when he stopped , she fluttered , and made a little infantine noise , and a kind of signal for him to begin again . She would be held ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson James Boswell, (Bu Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Aberdeen afterwards ancient appearance asked Auchinleck believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle church conversation dined dinner Duke Duke of Argyle Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird laughed Lawrence Kirk learning lived Lochbuy looked Lord Lord Monboddo lordship M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen main land manner mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed OCTOBER opinion pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect remarkable sail Samuel Johnson Scotland servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took Ulva vessel walked Whig wind wish write young
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Stran 28 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. ' Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it.
Stran 117 - 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 9 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Stran 42 - Then, sir, let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known...
Stran 26 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Stran 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Stran 67 - But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars.
Stran 232 - In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When...
Stran 225 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that is to say, if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras...