The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 strani |
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... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But , ( said I ) how much better are you than your books ? " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But , ( said I ) how much better are you than your books ? " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
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... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a most worthy man now ...
... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a most worthy man now ...
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... lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a Club , in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gen- tleman who was lately hung in ...
... lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a Club , in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gen- tleman who was lately hung in ...
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... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I over - heard him repeating here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I over - heard him repeating here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
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... lived thus . They never began to have a fire in the parlour , but on leaving off business , or some great revolution of their life . " - Dr . Watson said , the hall was as a * Dr. Johnson used to practise this himself very much . " No ...
... lived thus . They never began to have a fire in the parlour , but on leaving off business , or some great revolution of their life . " - Dr . Watson said , the hall was as a * Dr. Johnson used to practise this himself very much . " No ...
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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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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...