The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, 2. kötet1835 |
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... remember having mentioned this story to George Lord Lyttelton , who told me he was very intimate with Lord Chesterfield ; and , holding it as a well- known truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been ...
... remember having mentioned this story to George Lord Lyttelton , who told me he was very intimate with Lord Chesterfield ; and , holding it as a well- known truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been ...
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... remember when the Literary Property of those letters was contested in the court of session in Scotland , and Mr. Henry Dundas ( 1 ) , one of the counsel for the proprietors , read this character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David ...
... remember when the Literary Property of those letters was contested in the court of session in Scotland , and Mr. Henry Dundas ( 1 ) , one of the counsel for the proprietors , read this character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David ...
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... mentioned in the text , who had long been his servant : a bequest which Johnson himself imitated in favour of his own servant , Barber . — C. - - " I remember , at the classical lecture in the 18 1754 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... mentioned in the text , who had long been his servant : a bequest which Johnson himself imitated in favour of his own servant , Barber . — C. - - " I remember , at the classical lecture in the 18 1754 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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James Boswell John Wright. " I remember , at the classical lecture in the Hall , I could not bear Meeke's superiority , and I tried to sit as far from him as I could , that I might not hear him construe . ' " As we were leaving the ...
James Boswell John Wright. " I remember , at the classical lecture in the Hall , I could not bear Meeke's superiority , and I tried to sit as far from him as I could , that I might not hear him construe . ' " As we were leaving the ...
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... remember , that you are to subscribe a sheet a year : let us try , likewise , if we cannot persuade your brother to subscribe another . My book is now coming in luminis What will be its fate I know not , nor think much , because ...
... remember , that you are to subscribe a sheet a year : let us try , likewise , if we cannot persuade your brother to subscribe another . My book is now coming in luminis What will be its fate I know not , nor think much , because ...
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3. oldal - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
2. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
200. oldal - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England ! " This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
2. 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.
1. oldal - My Lord, 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...
243. oldal - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
42. oldal - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people].
255. oldal - Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.
98. oldal - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible.
181. oldal - He afterwards studied physic at Edinburgh, and upon the continent; and, I have been informed, was enabled to pursue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, according to the custom 'of many of them, he was entitled to the premium of a crown, when luckily for him his challenge was not accepted; so that, as I once observed to Dr.