The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 85 találatból.
20. oldal
... talents , but still more for his conviviality . Even the Peerage confesses " that he was more assiduous in the service of Bac- chus than Apollo . " - ED . ] I ventured to mention a person who was as violent 20 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
... talents , but still more for his conviviality . Even the Peerage confesses " that he was more assiduous in the service of Bac- chus than Apollo . " - ED . ] I ventured to mention a person who was as violent 20 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
21. oldal
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. I ventured to mention a person who was as violent a Scotchman as he was an Englishman ; and literally had the same contempt for an Englishman compared with a Scotchman , that he had for a Scotchman com ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. I ventured to mention a person who was as violent a Scotchman as he was an Englishman ; and literally had the same contempt for an Englishman compared with a Scotchman , that he had for a Scotchman com ...
25. oldal
... persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 2. " On Saturday , September 20 , after breakfast , when Taylor was gone out to his farm , Dr. Johnson and I had a serious conversation by ourselves on melancholy and madness ...
... persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 2. " On Saturday , September 20 , after breakfast , when Taylor was gone out to his farm , Dr. Johnson and I had a serious conversation by ourselves on melancholy and madness ...
26. oldal
... person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and composes an uneasy tumult of spirits ... persons , who were possessed with evil spirits ( which , after all , I think is the most probable cause of mad- ness ...
... person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and composes an uneasy tumult of spirits ... persons , who were possessed with evil spirits ( which , after all , I think is the most probable cause of mad- ness ...
27. oldal
... persons mad . " ] [ This probably meant ED . that he disapproved of the degree of impunity which is sometimes afforded to crime , under the plea of insanity , for it seems almost certain that he thought ( and perhaps felt ) that the ...
... persons mad . " ] [ This probably meant ED . that he disapproved of the degree of impunity which is sometimes afforded to crime , under the plea of insanity , for it seems almost certain that he thought ( and perhaps felt ) that the ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acquaintance admired affectionate afterwards Anec appeared April Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe Bishop Burke called character conversation dear sir Derbyshire dined dinner drink editor entertaining expressed favour Fitzherbert Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give happy hear heard honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Monboddo lordship LUCY PORTER madam Malone manner mentioned merit mind Miss Boothby never night obliged observed occasion once opinion Pembroke College Percy perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure Poets Pope praise publick racter reason recollect SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seems Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion Tissington to-day told truth verses whig wine wish words write wrote young
Népszerű szakaszok
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.