Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... gentleman having come in who was to go as a mate in the ship along with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solan- der , Dr. Johnson asked what were the names of the ships destined for the expedition . The gentleman answered , they were once to be called ...
... gentleman having come in who was to go as a mate in the ship along with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solan- der , Dr. Johnson asked what were the names of the ships destined for the expedition . The gentleman answered , they were once to be called ...
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... gentlemen from your places , and saying , " We will be gentlemen in our turn " ? Now , sir , that respect for authority is much more easily granted to a man whose father has had it , than to an upstart , and so society is more easily ...
... gentlemen from your places , and saying , " We will be gentlemen in our turn " ? Now , sir , that respect for authority is much more easily granted to a man whose father has had it , than to an upstart , and so society is more easily ...
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... gentlemen would remain ; but if the gentlemen will vie in ex- pense with the upstarts , which is very foolish , they must be ruined . " 6 I gave him an account of the excellent mimicry of a friend of mine in Scotland ; observing at ...
... gentlemen would remain ; but if the gentlemen will vie in ex- pense with the upstarts , which is very foolish , they must be ruined . " 6 I gave him an account of the excellent mimicry of a friend of mine in Scotland ; observing at ...
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... gentleman in the city . He told me that there was a very good History of Sweden by Daline . Having at that time an intention of writing the history of that country , I asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden with ...
... gentleman in the city . He told me that there was a very good History of Sweden by Daline . Having at that time an intention of writing the history of that country , I asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden with ...
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... gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual attention , and imposes perpetual ... gentlemen of Ireland , to whom a slight proportion of VOL . III . B the accent and recitative of that country is an ...
... gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual attention , and imposes perpetual ... gentlemen of Ireland , to whom a slight proportion of VOL . III . B the accent and recitative of that country is an ...
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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.