1709-March 18, 1776I. Pitman, 1907 |
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viii. oldal
... given us a complete history of his hero during the years when he was enjoying fame , a comfortable pension , and the admiration of a goodly circle of friends . But of those other years when , an unknown toiler in Grub Street , he was ...
... given us a complete history of his hero during the years when he was enjoying fame , a comfortable pension , and the admiration of a goodly circle of friends . But of those other years when , an unknown toiler in Grub Street , he was ...
xii. oldal
... given Boswell's text as revised and edited by Malone , and not encumbered I hope with too many or needless notes . I have divided the book into chapters and have added a chronological table of events in Johnson's life . Malone's own ...
... given Boswell's text as revised and edited by Malone , and not encumbered I hope with too many or needless notes . I have divided the book into chapters and have added a chronological table of events in Johnson's life . Malone's own ...
xxviii. oldal
... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross ...
... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross ...
3. oldal
... of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have * Rambler , No. 60 . given upon a former occasion , * have been received.
... of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have * Rambler , No. 60 . given upon a former occasion , * have been received.
4. oldal
James Boswell. given upon a former occasion , * have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more . ample communications of a similar nature . That the ...
James Boswell. given upon a former occasion , * have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more . ample communications of a similar nature . That the ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appeared Baretti Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON bookseller Boswell's character Church compliments consider conversation Court David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined Edinburgh edition eminent endeavour English engraving Essay Etat father favour Fleet Street Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Joseph Warton kind King labour lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford Pembroke College perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet printed published Rambler remarkable Reverend Samuel Johnson Savage Scotland Shakspeare Sheridan Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Street suppose talk tell thing Thomas THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale told translation truth verses Warton Williams wish write written wrote
Népszerű szakaszok
131. oldal - His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity: his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
154. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
153. oldal - HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
33. oldal - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend: but what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
272. oldal - I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?
271. oldal - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
154. oldal - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
176. oldal - Excise — a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
76. oldal - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
92. oldal - Devonshire, knowing nothing of its authour, and began to read it while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney-piece. It seized his attention so strongly, that, not being able to lay down the book till he had finished it, when he attempted to move, he found his arm totally benumbed.