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... reader , with a keener zest , to the feast of wisdom and of wit , flavoured occasionally by the exquisite folly of the writer , stored up in Bos- well's pages . It is not true , as Macaulay asserted , that Boswell was a man of the ...
... reader , with a keener zest , to the feast of wisdom and of wit , flavoured occasionally by the exquisite folly of the writer , stored up in Bos- well's pages . It is not true , as Macaulay asserted , that Boswell was a man of the ...
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... reader who wishes to inflict a penance on himself for feasting too freely in the world of letters . On being asked ... readers , and these , when published in book form , it afterwards secured . The age had a vast regard for ...
... reader who wishes to inflict a penance on himself for feasting too freely in the world of letters . On being asked ... readers , and these , when published in book form , it afterwards secured . The age had a vast regard for ...
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... readers , too well known it may be said , for they have been sometimes dwelt upon with a minuteness of detail that has thrown higher qualities into the shade . His actions be- trayed at times a lack of sanity , and there were hours and ...
... readers , too well known it may be said , for they have been sometimes dwelt upon with a minuteness of detail that has thrown higher qualities into the shade . His actions be- trayed at times a lack of sanity , and there were hours and ...
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... by his friends Beauclerk and Langton , he greeted them with " What , is it you , you dogs ! I'll have a frisk with you ! " and a merry frisk it was , as all readers of Boswell know . " Dr. Johnson , " said Fanny Burney , " 28 JOHNSON.
... by his friends Beauclerk and Langton , he greeted them with " What , is it you , you dogs ! I'll have a frisk with you ! " and a merry frisk it was , as all readers of Boswell know . " Dr. Johnson , " said Fanny Burney , " 28 JOHNSON.
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... reader of Boswell . In the days when mud baths were a fashion- able remedy , a small poet , whose friends would not listen to his verses , is said to have inflicted them on the helpless patients ; Johnson , although listened to anywhere ...
... reader of Boswell . In the days when mud baths were a fashion- able remedy , a small poet , whose friends would not listen to his verses , is said to have inflicted them on the helpless patients ; Johnson , although listened to anywhere ...
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Stran 14 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Stran 13 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Stran 48 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Stran 48 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country']. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people].
Stran 19 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Stran 35 - I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still.
Stran 68 - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Stran 32 - I then kissed her. She told me that to part was the greatest pain that she had ever felt, and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place. I expressed with swelled eyes, and great emotion of tenderness, the same hopes. We kissed and parted. I humbly hope to meet again, and to part no more...
Stran 60 - In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more. The effusions of passion, which exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes is tumour, meanness, tediousness, and obscurity.
Stran 48 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...