The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 2. kötetG. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... Asked to undertake a new edition of the Biographia Bri- tannica Conversation on melancholy and madness Johnson's happy frame of mind at Ashbourne . But confesses to hypochondria . His advice to have books about one On a future state ...
... Asked to undertake a new edition of the Biographia Bri- tannica Conversation on melancholy and madness Johnson's happy frame of mind at Ashbourne . But confesses to hypochondria . His advice to have books about one On a future state ...
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... asked what were the names of the ships destined for the expe- dition . The gentleman answered , they were once to be called the " Drake " and the " Raleigh , " but now they were to be called the " Resolution " and the " Adventure ...
... asked what were the names of the ships destined for the expe- dition . The gentleman answered , they were once to be called the " Drake " and the " Raleigh , " but now they were to be called the " Resolution " and the " Adventure ...
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... asked me to return to him in the evening , at nine , which I accordingly did . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams , who told us a story of second sight , which happened in Wales , where she was born . He listened to it very attentively ...
... asked me to return to him in the evening , at nine , which I accordingly did . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams , who told us a story of second sight , which happened in Wales , where she was born . He listened to it very attentively ...
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... asked him , if humiliating was a good word . He said , he had seen it frequently used , but he did not know it to be legitimate 1 He settled in Dublin as a printer and publisher , and acquired a for- tune by his Dublin Journal . He died ...
... asked him , if humiliating was a good word . He said , he had seen it frequently used , but he did not know it to be legitimate 1 He settled in Dublin as a printer and publisher , and acquired a for- tune by his Dublin Journal . He died ...
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... asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden without going thither . " Yes , Sir , " said he , " one for common use . " We talked of languages . Johnson observed , that Leibnitz had made some progress in a work tracing ...
... asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden without going thither . " Yes , Sir , " said he , " one for common use . " We talked of languages . Johnson observed , that Leibnitz had made some progress in a work tracing ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appeared April Ashbourne Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe bookseller called character church compliments consider conversation court Court of Session Croker DEAR SIR died dined doctor doubt Edinburgh edition eminent England English Erse favour Garrick gentleman GEORGE STEEVENS give Goldsmith happy Hebrides honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey judge king lady Langton learning letter Lichfield lived London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Hailes's Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Madam manner means mentioned mind minister never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem political published reason remark respect SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seems Sir Joshua Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth wish wonderful write written wrote
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190. oldal - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
266. oldal - 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.
171. oldal - 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." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
457. oldal - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies ! " His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.
33. oldal - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
60. oldal - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
18. oldal - Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
513. oldal - Follow me and hear a lecture in philosophy:' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar:' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates.
423. oldal - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
349. oldal - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.