The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, 6. kötet1884 |
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ix. oldal
... portraiture we claim , and believe we shall gain , the gratitude of all lovers of Johnson . Holkham Vicarage , Nov. 26th , 1883 . ROBINA NAPIER . CONTENTS . MRS . PIOZZI'S ANECDOTES Mrs. Piozzi's Preface · PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
... portraiture we claim , and believe we shall gain , the gratitude of all lovers of Johnson . Holkham Vicarage , Nov. 26th , 1883 . ROBINA NAPIER . CONTENTS . MRS . PIOZZI'S ANECDOTES Mrs. Piozzi's Preface · PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
6. oldal
... this uncle Andrew , I believe ; and I have heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much 6 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON Johnson's birth and family.
... this uncle Andrew , I believe ; and I have heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much 6 ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON Johnson's birth and family.
18. oldal
... believe , a mighty blameless character . " Such tricks were , however , the more unpardonable in Mr. Johnson , because no one could harangue like him about the difficulty always found in for- 66 66 66 Mr. giving petty injuries , or in ...
... believe , a mighty blameless character . " Such tricks were , however , the more unpardonable in Mr. Johnson , because no one could harangue like him about the difficulty always found in for- 66 66 66 Mr. giving petty injuries , or in ...
20. oldal
... believe , ever formed concerning the author's name , though at that time the subject of general conversation . Mr. Johnson made us all laugh one day , because I had received a remarkably fine Stilton cheese as a present from some person ...
... believe , ever formed concerning the author's name , though at that time the subject of general conversation . Mr. Johnson made us all laugh one day , because I had received a remarkably fine Stilton cheese as a present from some person ...
26. oldal
... believe the dog loves me dearly . Mr. Thrale ( turning to my husband ) , what shall you and I do that is good for Tom Davies ? We will do something for him , to be sure . " Of Pope as a writer he had the highest opinion , and once when ...
... believe the dog loves me dearly . Mr. Thrale ( turning to my husband ) , what shall you and I do that is good for Tom Davies ? We will do something for him , to be sure . " Of Pope as a writer he had the highest opinion , and once when ...
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33. 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.
30. oldal - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom sage! and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
393. oldal - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord...
27. oldal - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
393. oldal - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
365. oldal - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.