The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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25. oldal
... desire it may be particularly observed , as pointed out by him to me , that " The new lives of dissenting divines , in the first four volumes of the second edition of the ' Bio- graphia Britannica , ' are those of John Abernethy ...
... desire it may be particularly observed , as pointed out by him to me , that " The new lives of dissenting divines , in the first four volumes of the second edition of the ' Bio- graphia Britannica , ' are those of John Abernethy ...
34. oldal
... desire to maintain the literary character of his family : he was a genteel man , but did not keep up the dignity of his rank . He was so generally civil , that nobody thanked him for it . " " Did we not hear so much said of Jack Wilkes ...
... desire to maintain the literary character of his family : he was a genteel man , but did not keep up the dignity of his rank . He was so generally civil , that nobody thanked him for it . " " Did we not hear so much said of Jack Wilkes ...
37. oldal
... desire to see a contest be- tween Mrs. Macaulay and him ; but then I knew how the contest would end ; so that I was to see him triumph . JOHNSON . " Sir , you cannot be sure how a contest will end ; and no man has a right to engage two ...
... desire to see a contest be- tween Mrs. Macaulay and him ; but then I knew how the contest would end ; so that I was to see him triumph . JOHNSON . " Sir , you cannot be sure how a contest will end ; and no man has a right to engage two ...
43. oldal
... desire to see it play more freely , and partly from that in- clination to activity which will animate , at times , the most inert and sluggish mortal , took a long pole which was lying on a bank , and pushed down several parcels of this ...
... desire to see it play more freely , and partly from that in- clination to activity which will animate , at times , the most inert and sluggish mortal , took a long pole which was lying on a bank , and pushed down several parcels of this ...
45. oldal
... desire for instruction at the time . " What you read then , " said he , " you will remember ; but if you have not a book immedi- ately ready , and the subject moulds in your mind , it is a chance if you have again a desire to study it ...
... desire for instruction at the time . " What you read then , " said he , " you will remember ; but if you have not a book immedi- ately ready , and the subject moulds in your mind , it is a chance if you have again a desire to study it ...
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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.