JohnsonianaG. Bell & sons, 1884 - 479 oldal |
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... Doctor does not know your life ; nor can I tell indeed who does , except Dr. Taylor of Ashbourne . " " Why Taylor , " said he , " is better acquainted with my heart than any man or woman now alive ; and the history of my Oxford exploits ...
... Doctor does not know your life ; nor can I tell indeed who does , except Dr. Taylor of Ashbourne . " " Why Taylor , " said he , " is better acquainted with my heart than any man or woman now alive ; and the history of my Oxford exploits ...
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... Doctor , had I been in the house , I would have answered thus : " Suppose , Mr. Speaker , that to Wharton , or to Marlborough , or to any of the eminent whigs of the last age , the devil had , not with any great impropriety , consented ...
... Doctor , had I been in the house , I would have answered thus : " Suppose , Mr. Speaker , that to Wharton , or to Marlborough , or to any of the eminent whigs of the last age , the devil had , not with any great impropriety , consented ...
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... Doctor was so delighted at his odd sally , that he suddenly em- braced him , and the subject was immediately changed . I never saw Mr. Scott but that once in my life . Dr. Johnson was liberal enough in granting literary assistance to ...
... Doctor was so delighted at his odd sally , that he suddenly em- braced him , and the subject was immediately changed . I never saw Mr. Scott but that once in my life . Dr. Johnson was liberal enough in granting literary assistance to ...
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... Doctor , however , displayed so copious , so compendious a knowledge of authors , books , and every branch of learning in that language , that the gentleman appeared astonished . When he was gone home ( says Johnson ) , " Now for all ...
... Doctor , however , displayed so copious , so compendious a knowledge of authors , books , and every branch of learning in that language , that the gentleman appeared astonished . When he was gone home ( says Johnson ) , " Now for all ...
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... Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now ( says he ) , to tell of his own ...
... Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now ( says he ) , to tell of his own ...
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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.