Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 70
... travelled an hundred yards between hedges , or seen five trees fit for the carpenter . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 120. See ante , ii . 301 . One of the Boswells of this branch was , in 1798 , raised to the bench under the title of Lord Bal ...
... travelled an hundred yards between hedges , or seen five trees fit for the carpenter . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 120. See ante , ii . 301 . One of the Boswells of this branch was , in 1798 , raised to the bench under the title of Lord Bal ...
Stran 74
... travelled onwards from Montrose , we had the Gram- pion hills in our view , and some good land around us , but void of trees and hedges . Dr. Johnson has said ludicrously , in his extraordinary ' because he ' found a church , ' as he ...
... travelled onwards from Montrose , we had the Gram- pion hills in our view , and some good land around us , but void of trees and hedges . Dr. Johnson has said ludicrously , in his extraordinary ' because he ' found a church , ' as he ...
Stran 76
... travelled on , he told me , ' Sir , you got into our club by doing what a man can do . Several of the members wished to keep you out . Burke told me , he doubted if you were fit for it : but , now you are in , none of them are sorry ...
... travelled on , he told me , ' Sir , you got into our club by doing what a man can do . Several of the members wished to keep you out . Burke told me , he doubted if you were fit for it : but , now you are in , none of them are sorry ...
Stran 84
... travelled young men who wear long curls and spying- glasses . ' On the following Dec. 16 he says : The Maccaroni Club has quite absorbed Arthur's ; for , you know , old fools will hobble after young ones . ' Ib . p . 302. See post ...
... travelled young men who wear long curls and spying- glasses . ' On the following Dec. 16 he says : The Maccaroni Club has quite absorbed Arthur's ; for , you know , old fools will hobble after young ones . ' Ib . p . 302. See post ...
Stran 130
... travelled , ' these people , Sir , that Gerrard talks of , may have somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect , which relation has augmented to a different language . ' I asked him if peregrinity was an English word : he laughed , and ...
... travelled , ' these people , Sir , that Gerrard talks of , may have somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect , which relation has augmented to a different language . ' I asked him if peregrinity was an English word : he laughed , and ...
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Aberdeen ancient ante asked Auchinleck August August 15 August 21 authour believe boat Boswell Boswell's breakfast called castle church conversation Croker dinner Duke Dunvegan DUPPA Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gentleman heard Hebrides Highland honour Horace Horace Walpole Hume Inchkenneth island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Journey King Kingsburgh Lady Laird land learning lived London looked Lord Lord Monboddo M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night observed October October 14 October 23 opinion passage Piozzi Letters pleased Prince publick Rasay rock Samuel Johnson says Scotland September September 13 servant shew Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale told took Tour walked WALTER SCOTT wish writing young
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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.