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iii. oldal
... DIARY OF DR . CAMPBELL AND EXTRACTS FROM THAT OF MADAME D'ARBLAY 7475 NEWLY COLLECTED AND EDITED BY ROBINA NAPIER LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1 R THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 165239B ASTOR , 1884 JOHNSONIANA.
... DIARY OF DR . CAMPBELL AND EXTRACTS FROM THAT OF MADAME D'ARBLAY 7475 NEWLY COLLECTED AND EDITED BY ROBINA NAPIER LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1 R THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 165239B ASTOR , 1884 JOHNSONIANA.
33. oldal
... Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly bad playhouse com- panion , as his person drew people's eyes upon the box , and the loudness of his voice made it difficult for me to hear any body but himself ...
... Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly bad playhouse com- panion , as his person drew people's eyes upon the box , and the loudness of his voice made it difficult for me to hear any body but himself ...
216. oldal
... Covent Garden theatre , as could not fail to open all the avenues to the stage , and bespeak all the favour and attention from the performers and the public , that the applauding voice of him , whose applause was fame itself , could ...
... Covent Garden theatre , as could not fail to open all the avenues to the stage , and bespeak all the favour and attention from the performers and the public , that the applauding voice of him , whose applause was fame itself , could ...
217. oldal
... Covent Garden theatre , protested against the comedy , when as yet he had not struck upon a name for it . Johnson at length stood forth in all his terrors as champion for the piece , and backed by us his clients and retainers demanded a ...
... Covent Garden theatre , protested against the comedy , when as yet he had not struck upon a name for it . Johnson at length stood forth in all his terrors as champion for the piece , and backed by us his clients and retainers demanded a ...
239. oldal
... park of Blenheim . For this , and the University , at which we arrived about twelve o'clock , vide the Oxford guide ... Covent Garden Play 1 " Ten in the hundred lies here engraved , " Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved : If any ...
... park of Blenheim . For this , and the University , at which we arrived about twelve o'clock , vide the Oxford guide ... Covent Garden Play 1 " Ten in the hundred lies here engraved , " Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved : If any ...
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391. 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. When I had once addressed...
31. oldal - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
382. oldal - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
412. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
377. oldal - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
391. oldal - I 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
363. oldal - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
128. oldal - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter," he added, " could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.
485. oldal - The Life of Pizarro. With Some Account of his Associates In the Conquest of Peru.