JohnsonianaG. Bell & sons, 1884 - 13 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's friends , we should naturally , perhaps , look ...
... knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's friends , we should naturally , perhaps , look ...
6. oldal
... knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was madness , you may see , and would have been discoverable in other instances of the prevalence of imagination , but that poverty prevented ...
... knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was madness , you may see , and would have been discoverable in other instances of the prevalence of imagination , but that poverty prevented ...
8. oldal
... knew him ; and it was owing to that horrible disorder , too , that one eye was perfectly useless to him ; that defect , however , was not observable , the eyes looked both alike . As Mr. Johnson had an astonishing memory , I asked him ...
... knew him ; and it was owing to that horrible disorder , too , that one eye was perfectly useless to him ; that defect , however , was not observable , the eyes looked both alike . As Mr. Johnson had an astonishing memory , I asked him ...
14. oldal
... knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely be reduced to rule , and which come under no description . Of these he retained so many very strange ones , that I ...
... knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely be reduced to rule , and which come under no description . Of these he retained so many very strange ones , that I ...
15. oldal
... knew what they called a puppy's mother . " We were talking of a young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That ...
... knew what they called a puppy's mother . " We were talking of a young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That ...
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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.
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