Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... late the High Church , so well known by the eloquence of Dr. Hugh Blair . It is now very elegantly fitted up ; but it was then shamefully dirty3 . Dr. Johnson said nothing I 1 Cockburn ( Life of Jeffrey , i . 182 ) writing of the ...
... late the High Church , so well known by the eloquence of Dr. Hugh Blair . It is now very elegantly fitted up ; but it was then shamefully dirty3 . Dr. Johnson said nothing I 1 Cockburn ( Life of Jeffrey , i . 182 ) writing of the ...
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... late as the year 1722 , when the local jurisdictions were still hereditary [ see post , Sept. 11 ] , the sheriff of Sutherlandshire condemned a witch to death . ' Penny Cyclo . xxvii . 490 . In the Bishopric of Wurtzburg , so late as ...
... late as the year 1722 , when the local jurisdictions were still hereditary [ see post , Sept. 11 ] , the sheriff of Sutherlandshire condemned a witch to death . ' Penny Cyclo . xxvii . 490 . In the Bishopric of Wurtzburg , so late as ...
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... late been relaxed . Dr. Johnson's argument was , for a renewal of its strictness . The paper was printed , with additions by me , and given into the Court of Session . Lord Hailes knew Dr. John - ̧ son's part not to be mine , and ...
... late been relaxed . Dr. Johnson's argument was , for a renewal of its strictness . The paper was printed , with additions by me , and given into the Court of Session . Lord Hailes knew Dr. John - ̧ son's part not to be mine , and ...
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... late . We found a good supper at Glass's inn , and Dr. Johnson revived agreeably . He said , ' the collection called The Muses ' Welcome to King James , ( first of England , and sixth of Scotland , ) on his return to his native kingdom ...
... late . We found a good supper at Glass's inn , and Dr. Johnson revived agreeably . He said , ' the collection called The Muses ' Welcome to King James , ( first of England , and sixth of Scotland , ) on his return to his native kingdom ...
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... late in the year to Wesley , who visited St. An- drews on May 27 , 1776 , during the vacation , writes ( Journal , iv . 75 ) : - ' What is left of St. Leonard's Col- lege is only a heap of ruins . Two colleges remain . One of them has a ...
... late in the year to Wesley , who visited St. An- drews on May 27 , 1776 , during the vacation , writes ( Journal , iv . 75 ) : - ' What is left of St. Leonard's Col- lege is only a heap of ruins . Two colleges remain . One of them has a ...
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Stran 342 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Stran 339 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Stran 305 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Stran 12 - He was prone to superstition but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He had a loud voice and a slow deliberate utterance which no doubt gave some additional weight to the sterling metal of his conversation.
Stran 339 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Stran 109 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Stran 11 - He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church of England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; and had, perhaps, at an early period, narrowed his mind somewhat too much, both as to religion and politics.
Stran 204 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Stran 305 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae...
Stran 43 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.