Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, 4. kötet;1780-1784. kötetClarendon Press, 1887 |
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255. oldal
... asthma of such violence , that he was confined to the house in great pain , being sometimes obliged to sit all night in his chair , a recumbent posture being so hurtful to his respiration , that he could not endure lying in bed ; and ...
... asthma of such violence , that he was confined to the house in great pain , being sometimes obliged to sit all night in his chair , a recumbent posture being so hurtful to his respiration , that he could not endure lying in bed ; and ...
259. oldal
... asthma so violent , that with difficulty I got to my own house , in which I have been confined eight or nine weeks , and from which I know not when I shall be able to go even to church . The asthma , however , is not the worst . A ...
... asthma so violent , that with difficulty I got to my own house , in which I have been confined eight or nine weeks , and from which I know not when I shall be able to go even to church . The asthma , however , is not the worst . A ...
264. oldal
... asthma , if not irritated by cold , gives me little trouble . While I am writing this , I have not any sensation of debility or disease . But I do not yet venture out , having been confined to the house from the thirteenth of December ...
... asthma , if not irritated by cold , gives me little trouble . While I am writing this , I have not any sensation of debility or disease . But I do not yet venture out , having been confined to the house from the thirteenth of December ...
267. oldal
... asthma is , I am afraid , constitutional and incurable ; but it is only occasional , and unless it be excited by labour or by cold , gives me no molestation , nor does it lay very close siege to life ; for Sir John Floyer , whom the ...
... asthma is , I am afraid , constitutional and incurable ; but it is only occasional , and unless it be excited by labour or by cold , gives me no molestation , nor does it lay very close siege to life ; for Sir John Floyer , whom the ...
353. oldal
... asthma to almost his ninetieth year . His book by want of order is obscure , and his asthma , I think , not of the same kind with mine . Something however I may perhaps learn . My appetite still continues keen enough ; and what I ...
... asthma to almost his ninetieth year . His book by want of order is obscure , and his asthma , I think , not of the same kind with mine . Something however I may perhaps learn . My appetite still continues keen enough ; and what I ...
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400. 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...
139. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
46. oldal - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
45. oldal - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
43. oldal - The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. "Blank verse," said an ingenious critick, "seems to be verse only to the eye.
315. oldal - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
221. oldal - But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
9. oldal - Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines, ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well;' then asked the doctor, ' Why did Pope say this ?
281. oldal - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
73. oldal - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; 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.