The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 360 oldal |
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... journey was a memorable one for Johnson at the age of sixty - four . His love of London amounted to a passion , yet what greater contrast to Fleet Street and the Strand than the bleak shores of Skye and Mull ? He was fond of his ease ...
... journey was a memorable one for Johnson at the age of sixty - four . His love of London amounted to a passion , yet what greater contrast to Fleet Street and the Strand than the bleak shores of Skye and Mull ? He was fond of his ease ...
ix. oldal
... Journey , " a brief , unpretending narrative , was read with extraordinary avidity , particularly in Scotland . It set innumerable tongues and pens to work , abusing the writer for illiberality , but it also set many of the lairds to ...
... Journey , " a brief , unpretending narrative , was read with extraordinary avidity , particularly in Scotland . It set innumerable tongues and pens to work , abusing the writer for illiberality , but it also set many of the lairds to ...
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... Journey , " melt and disappear in these Highland solitudes , which he regarded as the chosen retreats of ancient piety , loyalty , and hospitality . Nor was the company he met unworthy of the scene . Johnson's genius was not dramatic ...
... Journey , " melt and disappear in these Highland solitudes , which he regarded as the chosen retreats of ancient piety , loyalty , and hospitality . Nor was the company he met unworthy of the scene . Johnson's genius was not dramatic ...
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... journey , Johnson said they had gone too late to the Hebrides to see a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life : " the Highlanders were fast losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general ...
... journey , Johnson said they had gone too late to the Hebrides to see a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life : " the Highlanders were fast losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general ...
xxiv. oldal
... Journey to the Western Islands . " His letter to the Laird of Rasay . Letter from Sir William Forbes to the author . Conclusion APPENDIX • • 336 829 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . [ The topographical subjects have been xxiv CONTENTS .
... Journey to the Western Islands . " His letter to the Laird of Rasay . Letter from Sir William Forbes to the author . Conclusion APPENDIX • • 336 829 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . [ The topographical subjects have been xxiv CONTENTS .
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell Korlátozott előnézet - 1780 |
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216. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
174. oldal - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
251. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
5. oldal - He had a constitutional melancholy the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking...
94. oldal - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
19. oldal - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
4. oldal - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment.
19. oldal - He told us of Cooke, who translated Hesiod, and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus, for which he was always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a Club, in the following singular manner: 'This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother.
58. oldal - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
105. oldal - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...