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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vi. oldal
... lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . " Tyers himself modestly claims to have " worked his little bit of gold into as much gold leaf as he could . " The recollections of Johnson by ...
... lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . " Tyers himself modestly claims to have " worked his little bit of gold into as much gold leaf as he could . " The recollections of Johnson by ...
7. oldal
... lived to be twenty - seven or twenty - eight years old , and of whose manly spirit I have heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure , mentioning one circumstance , particular enough , that when the company were one day lamenting ...
... lived to be twenty - seven or twenty - eight years old , and of whose manly spirit I have heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure , mentioning one circumstance , particular enough , that when the company were one day lamenting ...
9. oldal
... lived on the profits , and sought not to increase their income : she was therefore inclined to think higher of herself than of her husband , whose conduct in money matters being but indifferent , she had a trick of teizing him about it ...
... lived on the profits , and sought not to increase their income : she was therefore inclined to think higher of herself than of her husband , whose conduct in money matters being but indifferent , she had a trick of teizing him about it ...
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... lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them : but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or ...
... lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them : but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or ...
16. oldal
... lived in great familiarity with him ( though I think there was not much affection ) from the year 1753 till the time Mr. Thrale and you took me up . I intend , however , to disappoint the rogues , and either make you write the life ...
... lived in great familiarity with him ( though I think there was not much affection ) from the year 1753 till the time Mr. Thrale and you took me up . I intend , however , to disappoint the rogues , and either make you write the life ...
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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.