The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... wish , Can yield no room to Music's soothing power . " Some of the old legendary stories put in verse by mo- dern writers1 provoked him to caricature them thus one day at Streatham ; but they are already well- known . Piozzi , p . 50 ...
... wish , Can yield no room to Music's soothing power . " Some of the old legendary stories put in verse by mo- dern writers1 provoked him to caricature them thus one day at Streatham ; but they are already well- known . Piozzi , p . 50 ...
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... wish we could have an authentick history of it . ” JOHNSON . " If you were not an idle dog you might write it , by collecting from every body what they can tell , and putting down your authorities . " Boswell . " But I could not have ...
... wish we could have an authentick history of it . ” JOHNSON . " If you were not an idle dog you might write it , by collecting from every body what they can tell , and putting down your authorities . " Boswell . " But I could not have ...
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... wish to live there ; yet , sir , were I in your father's place , I should not consent to your settling there ; for I have the old feudal notions , and I should be afraid that Auchinleck would be deserted , as you would soon find it more ...
... wish to live there ; yet , sir , were I in your father's place , I should not consent to your settling there ; for I have the old feudal notions , and I should be afraid that Auchinleck would be deserted , as you would soon find it more ...
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... wish I saw you and Mrs. Macaulay together . " He grew very angry ; and , after a pause , while a cloud gathered on his brow , he burst out , " No , sir ; you would not see us quarrel , to make you sport . Don't you know that it is very ...
... wish I saw you and Mrs. Macaulay together . " He grew very angry ; and , after a pause , while a cloud gathered on his brow , he burst out , " No , sir ; you would not see us quarrel , to make you sport . Don't you know that it is very ...
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... wish I could hear of you at Bath ; but I am afraid that is hardly to be expected from your resolute inactivity . My next hope is that you will endeavour to grow well where you are . I cannot help think- ing that I saw a visible ...
... wish I could hear of you at Bath ; but I am afraid that is hardly to be expected from your resolute inactivity . My next hope is that you will endeavour to grow well where you are . I cannot help think- ing that I saw a visible ...
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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.