Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... Thrale loves you , and Mrs. Williams loves you , and what would have inclined me to love you , if I had been neutral before , you are a great favourite of Dr. Beattie . ' Of Dr. Beattie I should have thought much , but that his lady ...
... Thrale loves you , and Mrs. Williams loves you , and what would have inclined me to love you , if I had been neutral before , you are a great favourite of Dr. Beattie . ' Of Dr. Beattie I should have thought much , but that his lady ...
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... Thrale says , if ever she has another husband , she'll have Beattie . He sunk upon us1 that he was married ; else we should have shown his lady more civilities . She is a very fine woman . But how can you show civilities to a nonentity ...
... Thrale says , if ever she has another husband , she'll have Beattie . He sunk upon us1 that he was married ; else we should have shown his lady more civilities . She is a very fine woman . But how can you show civilities to a nonentity ...
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... Thrale . ' While a former edition of my work was passing through the press , I was unexpectedly favoured with a packet from Philadelphia , from Mr. James Aber- crombie , a gentleman of that country , who is pleased to honour me with ...
... Thrale . ' While a former edition of my work was passing through the press , I was unexpectedly favoured with a packet from Philadelphia , from Mr. James Aber- crombie , a gentleman of that country , who is pleased to honour me with ...
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... Thrale's , in the evening , he repeated his usual paradoxical declamation against action in public speaking . ' Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to ...
... Thrale's , in the evening , he repeated his usual paradoxical declamation against action in public speaking . ' Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to ...
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James Boswell Augustine Birrell. MRS . THRALE : ' What then , sir , becomes of Demos- thenes's saying : " Action , action , action ! " ? ' JOHNSON : ' Demosthenes , madam , spoke to an assembly of brutes , to a barbarous people . ' I ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. MRS . THRALE : ' What then , sir , becomes of Demos- thenes's saying : " Action , action , action ! " ? ' JOHNSON : ' Demosthenes , madam , spoke to an assembly of brutes , to a barbarous people . ' I ...
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Stran 261 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Stran 184 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Stran 261 - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.
Stran 44 - Of our friend Goldsmith he said, " Sir, he is so much afraid of being unnoticed, that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in the company." BOSWELL. "Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule." BOSWELL. " For my part, I like very well to hear honest Goldsmith talk away carelessly.
Stran 195 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Stran 261 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Stran 237 - For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Stran 87 - Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his History. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool : the wool takes up more room, than the gold.
Stran 109 - ... paid to Johnson. One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. ' Sir,' said he, ' you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.
Stran 45 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.