The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1. kötetJohn Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1831 |
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James Boswell John Wilson Croker. increases , so appear to increase the interest and de- light which we feel at being introduced , as it were , into that distinguished society of which Dr. Johnson formed the centre , and of which his ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. increases , so appear to increase the interest and de- light which we feel at being introduced , as it were , into that distinguished society of which Dr. Johnson formed the centre , and of which his ...
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James Boswell John Wilson Croker. tleman , , " " a distinguished orator , " these were well un- derstood by the society of the day ; but it is become necessary to apprize the reader of our times , that Mr. Burke , Mr. Sheridan , and Mr ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. tleman , , " " a distinguished orator , " these were well un- derstood by the society of the day ; but it is become necessary to apprize the reader of our times , that Mr. Burke , Mr. Sheridan , and Mr ...
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James Boswell John Wilson Croker. or less light , and lights more or less favourable , on the different persons of his scene ; some of whom he ob- trudes into broad day , while others he only " adum- brates " by imperfect allusions . But ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. or less light , and lights more or less favourable , on the different persons of his scene ; some of whom he ob- trudes into broad day , while others he only " adum- brates " by imperfect allusions . But ...
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James Boswell John Wilson Croker. biography of Johnson : as this is , as far as the editor knows , a novel attempt , and as it must give his work somewhat of a confused and heterogeneous appearance , he thinks it necessary to state some ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. biography of Johnson : as this is , as far as the editor knows , a novel attempt , and as it must give his work somewhat of a confused and heterogeneous appearance , he thinks it necessary to state some ...
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... Boswell had , by great zeal and diligence , learned to record conversations ; nor in the details of facts are they so precise as Mr. Bos- well with good reason claims to be . Mr. Boswell took , indeed , extraordinary and most laudable ...
... Boswell had , by great zeal and diligence , learned to record conversations ; nor in the details of facts are they so precise as Mr. Bos- well with good reason claims to be . Mr. Boswell took , indeed , extraordinary and most laudable ...
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250. oldal - 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
428. oldal - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
338. oldal - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
249. oldal - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
253. oldal - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
379. oldal - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
461. oldal - I thus, Sir, showed 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?
50. oldal - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
485. oldal - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
118. oldal - Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared...