The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 360 oldal |
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... Morning review of Last night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at different times . Self - deception SEPTEMBER 27.-Dr. Johnson's popularity in ...
... Morning review of Last night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at different times . Self - deception SEPTEMBER 27.-Dr. Johnson's popularity in ...
9. oldal
... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bed - chamber to him and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bed - chamber to him and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
32. oldal
... morning with strong symptoms of over - indulgence upon him , and being asked by a friend who met him , What the Tolbooth Whigs would say if they were to see him at that moment ? ' he instantly replied , " They would not believe their ...
... morning with strong symptoms of over - indulgence upon him , and being asked by a friend who met him , What the Tolbooth Whigs would say if they were to see him at that moment ? ' he instantly replied , " They would not believe their ...
61. oldal
... morning , as did Dr. Gerard , who had come six miles from the country on purpose . We went and The Rev. Dr. Phannel Bacon , a now neglected poet , author of " The Artificial Kite , " 1719 , a series of dramatic pieces , collected and ...
... morning , as did Dr. Gerard , who had come six miles from the country on purpose . We went and The Rev. Dr. Phannel Bacon , a now neglected poet , author of " The Artificial Kite , " 1719 , a series of dramatic pieces , collected and ...
63. oldal
... morning ; now we were but barren . The professors seemed afraid to speak . 66 Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . - JOHNSON : " Why , sir , he has printed some of his works , and perhaps bought ...
... morning ; now we were but barren . The professors seemed afraid to speak . 66 Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . - JOHNSON : " Why , sir , he has printed some of his works , and perhaps bought ...
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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...