JohnsonianaG. Bell & sons, 1884 - 13 oldal |
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17. oldal
... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and reflecting on Raphael's St. John at that time , as ' upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and reflecting on Raphael's St. John at that time , as ' upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
22. oldal
... nature , smiling art . Venus , courted by an ode , ' On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right ' Now Anacreon rules my flight : ' His the letters that you see , ' Weighty charge consign'd to me : ' Think not yet my ...
... nature , smiling art . Venus , courted by an ode , ' On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right ' Now Anacreon rules my flight : ' His the letters that you see , ' Weighty charge consign'd to me : ' Think not yet my ...
27. oldal
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the composi- tions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping- stones over a miry road : Young froths ...
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the composi- tions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping- stones over a miry road : Young froths ...
33. oldal
... Nature could no further go , To make a third she join❜d the former two . " One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr. Johnson went with me to Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly ...
... Nature could no further go , To make a third she join❜d the former two . " One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr. Johnson went with me to Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly ...
35. oldal
... nature that is gelidè and timidè . ” In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or ...
... nature that is gelidè and timidè . ” In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or ...
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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.