The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 360 oldal |
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... KING JAMES II . IN THE YEAR 1746 . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . " O ! while along the stream of time , thy name Expanded flies , and gathers all its fame , Say , shall my little bark attendant sail , Pursue the triumph , and partake the ...
... KING JAMES II . IN THE YEAR 1746 . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . " O ! while along the stream of time , thy name Expanded flies , and gathers all its fame , Say , shall my little bark attendant sail , Pursue the triumph , and partake the ...
viii. oldal
... kings of three fair realms are laid . " His And in his age he was to realize those boyish dreams . reception did not belie the ancient hospitality of the country . His fame had preceded him wherever he went ; and lairds , tenants , and ...
... kings of three fair realms are laid . " His And in his age he was to realize those boyish dreams . reception did not belie the ancient hospitality of the country . His fame had preceded him wherever he went ; and lairds , tenants , and ...
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... King James VI . , and was a man of invincible courage and address , while his son and suc cessor , John More ( who died in 1649 ) , is said to have taken so much pains to civilize the country , that he acquired the appel- lation of ...
... King James VI . , and was a man of invincible courage and address , while his son and suc cessor , John More ( who died in 1649 ) , is said to have taken so much pains to civilize the country , that he acquired the appel- lation of ...
xx. oldal
... King James II . Arrive at Dunvegan · SEPTEMBER 14. - Importance of the chastity of women . Dr. Cadogan . Whether the Practice of authors is necessary to enforce their Doctrines . Good - humour acquirable 144 164 SEPTEMBER 15 , -Sir ...
... King James II . Arrive at Dunvegan · SEPTEMBER 14. - Importance of the chastity of women . Dr. Cadogan . Whether the Practice of authors is necessary to enforce their Doctrines . Good - humour acquirable 144 164 SEPTEMBER 15 , -Sir ...
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... King was to be preserved inviolate , " is a striking proof to me , either that " He who sitteth in heaven " scorns the loftiness of human pride , or that the Evil Spirit , whose personal existence I strongly believe , and even in this ...
... King was to be preserved inviolate , " is a striking proof to me , either that " He who sitteth in heaven " scorns the loftiness of human pride , or that the Evil Spirit , whose personal existence I strongly believe , and even in this ...
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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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Aberdeen afterwards Allan Maclean ancient appearance asked believe better boat Boswell Boswell's breakfast called castle chief church clan conversation Corrichatachin daughter died dinner Donald Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give Grugach Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Inchkenneth Inverness island Isle James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey King Kingsburgh Lady laird land Lawrence Kirk learned lived London looked Lord Lord Monboddo Macaulay Mackenzie Mackinnon Maclean Macleod Macqueen Malcolm mentioned miles mind minister Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles Principal Robertson Rasay remarked Samuel Johnson Scotland Scottish seemed servant shore Sir Alexander Sir Allan Skye spirit Talisker talked tell things thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took walked write young
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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...