Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 oldal |
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20. oldal
... told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous editions and quick sale of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes : " Remember always , " said he ...
... told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous editions and quick sale of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes : " Remember always , " said he ...
29. oldal
... told me that the character of Sober , in " The Idler , " was by himself intended as his own portrait ; and that he had his own outset into life in his eye , when he wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . 16. Giving away Literary ...
... told me that the character of Sober , in " The Idler , " was by himself intended as his own portrait ; and that he had his own outset into life in his eye , when he wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . 16. Giving away Literary ...
32. oldal
... told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now , " says he , " to tell of his own disgrace ! " In the course of that hour's chat , he told me how he used to tease Garrick by commendations of the tomb scene in ...
... told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now , " says he , " to tell of his own disgrace ! " In the course of that hour's chat , he told me how he used to tease Garrick by commendations of the tomb scene in ...
48. oldal
... told him the history , geography , and chronology of Tadmor in the wilderness , with every incident that literature could furnish , I think , or eloquence express , from the building of Solomon's palace to 48 JOHNSONIANA .
... told him the history , geography , and chronology of Tadmor in the wilderness , with every incident that literature could furnish , I think , or eloquence express , from the building of Solomon's palace to 48 JOHNSONIANA .
54. oldal
... told a story with so good a grace , or knew so well what would make an effect upon his auditors . When he raised contributions for some distressed author , or wit in want , he often made us all more than amends by divert- ing ...
... told a story with so good a grace , or knew so well what would make an effect upon his auditors . When he raised contributions for some distressed author , or wit in want , he often made us all more than amends by divert- ing ...
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387. oldal - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
464. oldal - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
26. oldal - We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age...
388. oldal - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
437. oldal - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
379. oldal - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
464. oldal - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
26. oldal - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
372. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
32. oldal - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.