The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 360 oldal |
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... particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It was , " I'll give thee a wind . " " Thou art kind . " - To attract him , we had invitations from the chiefs Macdonald and Macleod ; and , for additional aid ...
... particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It was , " I'll give thee a wind . " " Thou art kind . " - To attract him , we had invitations from the chiefs Macdonald and Macleod ; and , for additional aid ...
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... particular instances of wit , which is of so airy and spiritual a nature as often to elude the hand that attempts to grasp it . The excellence and efficacy of a bon mot depend frequently poetry , he would have made a very fine epic 16 ...
... particular instances of wit , which is of so airy and spiritual a nature as often to elude the hand that attempts to grasp it . The excellence and efficacy of a bon mot depend frequently poetry , he would have made a very fine epic 16 ...
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... particular manner of the speaker , on the person to whom it is applied , the previous introduction , and a thousand minute particulars which cannot be easily enumerated , that it is always dangerous to detach a witty saying from the ...
... particular manner of the speaker , on the person to whom it is applied , the previous introduction , and a thousand minute particulars which cannot be easily enumerated , that it is always dangerous to detach a witty saying from the ...
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... particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and eaten by the Scots by way of a relish . He had never seen them , though they are sold in London . I insisted on scottifying his palate ; but he was very reluctant ...
... particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and eaten by the Scots by way of a relish . He had never seen them , though they are sold in London . I insisted on scottifying his palate ; but he was very reluctant ...
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... particular in counting he may be attacked . I know not how Colonel Nairne came to say there were but two large trees in the county of Fife . I did not perceive that he smiled . There are cer- tainly not a great many ; but I could have ...
... particular in counting he may be attacked . I know not how Colonel Nairne came to say there were but two large trees in the county of Fife . I did not perceive that he smiled . There are cer- tainly not a great many ; but I could have ...
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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...