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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... Death . A List of Abbreviations , Contrac- tions , and Arbitrary Signs used in Writing and Printing . A Classified Selection of Pictorial Illustrations ( 70 pages ) . With references to the text . " The cheapest Dictionary ever ...
... Death . A List of Abbreviations , Contrac- tions , and Arbitrary Signs used in Writing and Printing . A Classified Selection of Pictorial Illustrations ( 70 pages ) . With references to the text . " The cheapest Dictionary ever ...
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... Death of Sertorius . 148 . Vol . III . Including the third Mithridatic War , the Catiline Conspiracy , and the Con- sulship of C. Julius Cæsar . 148 . Vol . IV . History of Cæsar's Gallic Campaigns and of contemporaneous events . 148 ...
... Death of Sertorius . 148 . Vol . III . Including the third Mithridatic War , the Catiline Conspiracy , and the Con- sulship of C. Julius Cæsar . 148 . Vol . IV . History of Cæsar's Gallic Campaigns and of contemporaneous events . 148 ...
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... death , having been published in the " Gentleman's Magazine " only a few days after that event . Boswell calls it " an entertaining little collection of fragments , " and says that Tyers " had lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner ...
... death , having been published in the " Gentleman's Magazine " only a few days after that event . Boswell calls it " an entertaining little collection of fragments , " and says that Tyers " had lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner ...
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... death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself , the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it ...
... death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself , the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it ...
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... death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the little preface , accusing himself of making so graceless a return for the civilities shown him . He had , among other elegancies about the park ...
... death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the little preface , accusing himself of making so graceless a return for the civilities shown him . He had , among other elegancies about the park ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Together with the Journal of a Tour to the ... James Boswell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Together with the Journal of a Tour to the ... James Boswell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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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.