The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. Repr. of the 1st ed., to which are added mr. Boswell's corrections [ &c.]. Ed., with new notes, by P. Fitzgerald. (Auchinleck ed.).1874 |
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... dear lady , there is no wit in what our friend added ; there is only abuse . You may as well say of any man that he will pick a pocket . Besides , the man who is stationed at the door does not pick people's pockets : that is done within ...
... dear lady , there is no wit in what our friend added ; there is only abuse . You may as well say of any man that he will pick a pocket . Besides , the man who is stationed at the door does not pick people's pockets : that is done within ...
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... dear , other nations would undersell us , and our commerce would be ruined . JOHNSON , ( smiling ) . " Never fear , Sir . Our commerce is in a very good state ; and suppose we had no commerce at all , we could live very well on the ...
... dear , other nations would undersell us , and our commerce would be ruined . JOHNSON , ( smiling ) . " Never fear , Sir . Our commerce is in a very good state ; and suppose we had no commerce at all , we could live very well on the ...
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... DEAR SIR , -I have enquired more minutely about the medicine for the rheuma- tism , which I am sorry to hear that you still want . The receipt is this : " Take equal quantities of flour of sulphur , and flour of mustard - seed , make ...
... DEAR SIR , -I have enquired more minutely about the medicine for the rheuma- tism , which I am sorry to hear that you still want . The receipt is this : " Take equal quantities of flour of sulphur , and flour of mustard - seed , make ...
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... Dear , Depends poor Polly's life . " " 1 Miss Linley . 2 It was her father , not Sheridan's , that was so earnest . - Moore's Life of Sheridan , i . 115 . there was when Charles the Second was restored . If THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 25.
... Dear , Depends poor Polly's life . " " 1 Miss Linley . 2 It was her father , not Sheridan's , that was so earnest . - Moore's Life of Sheridan , i . 115 . there was when Charles the Second was restored . If THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 25.
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... DEAR SIR , -I make no doubt but you are now safely lodged in your own habitation , and have told all your adventures to Mrs. Boswell and Miss Veronica . Pray teach Veronica to love me . Bid her not mind mamma . " Mrs. Thrale has taken ...
... DEAR SIR , -I make no doubt but you are now safely lodged in your own habitation , and have told all your adventures to Mrs. Boswell and Miss Veronica . Pray teach Veronica to love me . Bid her not mind mamma . " Mrs. Thrale has taken ...
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436. oldal - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
211. oldal - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
81. oldal - 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.
470. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
81. oldal - There is no private house (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever [so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that...
444. oldal - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
403. oldal - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
444. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
142. oldal - Pray give me leave, Sir; — It is better here — A little of the brown— Some fat, Sir— A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter— Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange ; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — " Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
219. oldal - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.