Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... hope there will be little fear of a reversal ; but I must beg to have your aid in my plan of supporting the decree . It is a general question , and not a point of particular law . ' I am , etc. , JAMES BOSWELL . ' TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ ...
... hope there will be little fear of a reversal ; but I must beg to have your aid in my plan of supporting the decree . It is a general question , and not a point of particular law . ' I am , etc. , JAMES BOSWELL . ' TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ ...
Stran 3
... hope yet to see Beattie's College : and have not given up the western voyage . But however all this may be or not , let us try to make each other happy when we meet , and not refer our pleasure to distant times or distant places . ' How ...
... hope yet to see Beattie's College : and have not given up the western voyage . But however all this may be or not , let us try to make each other happy when we meet , and not refer our pleasure to distant times or distant places . ' How ...
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... hope , sir , he will be in no danger . It is a very delicate matter to interfere between a master and his scholars : nor do I see how you can fix the degree of severity that a master may use . ' JOHNSON : ' Why , sir , till you can fix ...
... hope , sir , he will be in no danger . It is a very delicate matter to interfere between a master and his scholars : nor do I see how you can fix the degree of severity that a master may use . ' JOHNSON : ' Why , sir , till you can fix ...
Stran 57
... hope that of departing from it there will now be an end ; that the wisdom of our ancestors will be treated with due reverence ; and that consistent and steady decisions will furnish the people with a rule of action , and leave fraud and ...
... hope that of departing from it there will now be an end ; that the wisdom of our ancestors will be treated with due reverence ; and that consistent and steady decisions will furnish the people with a rule of action , and leave fraud and ...
Stran 64
... hope care did not often show her face in their company . ' I received the copy of Rasselas . The impression is not magnificent , but it flatters an author , because the printer seems to have expected that it would be scattered among the ...
... hope care did not often show her face in their company . ' I received the copy of Rasselas . The impression is not magnificent , but it flatters an author , because the printer seems to have expected that it would be scattered among the ...
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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.