The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... asked the man's wife privately whether his affairs were not in a bad way ? She said no . He continued his attendance some time , still without success . At length the man's wife told him she had discovered that her husband's affairs ...
... asked the man's wife privately whether his affairs were not in a bad way ? She said no . He continued his attendance some time , still without success . At length the man's wife told him she had discovered that her husband's affairs ...
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... asked by Dr. Lawrence what he Apoph . p . 204. thought the best system of education , he replied , " School in school - hours , and home - instruction in the intervals . " ] Piozzi , p . 168 , 169 . [ On another occasion he maintained ...
... asked by Dr. Lawrence what he Apoph . p . 204. thought the best system of education , he replied , " School in school - hours , and home - instruction in the intervals . " ] Piozzi , p . 168 , 169 . [ On another occasion he maintained ...
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... asked to undertake the new edition of the " Biographia Britannica , " but had declined it ; which he afterwards said to me he regretted . In this regret many will join , because it would have procured us more of Johnson's most de ...
... asked to undertake the new edition of the " Biographia Britannica , " but had declined it ; which he afterwards said to me he regretted . In this regret many will join , because it would have procured us more of Johnson's most de ...
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... asked how much she could be obliged to work , " Why , " said Johnson , " as much as is reasonable ; and what is that ? as much as she thinks reasonable . " Dr. Johnson obligingly proposed to carry me to see Ilam , a romantick scene ...
... asked how much she could be obliged to work , " Why , " said Johnson , " as much as is reasonable ; and what is that ? as much as she thinks reasonable . " Dr. Johnson obligingly proposed to carry me to see Ilam , a romantick scene ...
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... asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester . JOHNSON . " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said they were . I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure ...
... asked if Burnet had not given a good Life of Rochester . JOHNSON . " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said they were . I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure ...
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428. oldal - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
476. oldal - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
124. oldal - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
29. oldal - find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
477. oldal - ... it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
440. oldal - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
103. oldal - We have no sermons addressed to the passions that are good for any thing; if you mean that kind of eloquence." A CLERGYMAN, (whose name I do not recollect.) " Were not Dodd's sermons addressed to the" passions?" JOHNSON. "They were nothing, sir, be they addressed to what they may.
224. oldal - O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head.
476. oldal - Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...
464. oldal - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.