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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xii. oldal
... talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke 244 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale • 245 Dines with Archdeacon Congreve . 245 ... Talks with Johnson on Ireland • 259 260 • Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales ' 261 · Boswell annoys Johnson with ...
... talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke 244 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale • 245 Dines with Archdeacon Congreve . 245 ... Talks with Johnson on Ireland • 259 260 • Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales ' 261 · Boswell annoys Johnson with ...
6. oldal
... talking much of his family- " one has ( says he ) so little pleasure in re- citing the anecdotes of beggary . " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with partial tenderness as well as true esteem ; " Why do you like ...
... talking much of his family- " one has ( says he ) so little pleasure in re- citing the anecdotes of beggary . " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with partial tenderness as well as true esteem ; " Why do you like ...
9. oldal
... talking world , I have known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's ...
... talking world , I have known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's ...
10. oldal
... talk only on one subject , or act only in one department , is seldom wanted , and perhaps never wished for ; while the man of general knowledge can often benefit , and always please . " He used to relate , however , another story less ...
... talk only on one subject , or act only in one department , is seldom wanted , and perhaps never wished for ; while the man of general knowledge can often benefit , and always please . " He used to relate , however , another story less ...
11. oldal
... talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ; and whatever work he did , seemed so much below his powers of performance , that he appeared the idlest of all human beings ; ever musing till he was called ...
... talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ; and whatever work he did , seemed so much below his powers of performance , that he appeared the idlest of all human beings ; ever musing till he was called ...
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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.