Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... Letters , i . 206. A week after Harry's death he wrote : I loved him as I never expect to love any other little boy ... letter this afternoon - Sure it will bring me no bad news . ' Ib . i . 263. See Boswell's Hebrides , Sept. 21 , 1773 ...
... Letters , i . 206. A week after Harry's death he wrote : I loved him as I never expect to love any other little boy ... letter this afternoon - Sure it will bring me no bad news . ' Ib . i . 263. See Boswell's Hebrides , Sept. 21 , 1773 ...
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... Letters , i . 309–314 . 2 Pope , Essay on Man , iv . 390 . Boswell twice more applies the same line to Johnson , post , June 3 , 1781 , and under Dec. 13 , 1784 . 3 Imlac consoles the Princess for the loss of Pekuah . ' When the clouds ...
... Letters , i . 309–314 . 2 Pope , Essay on Man , iv . 390 . Boswell twice more applies the same line to Johnson , post , June 3 , 1781 , and under Dec. 13 , 1784 . 3 Imlac consoles the Princess for the loss of Pekuah . ' When the clouds ...
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... Letters , i . 318 . 3 Hawkins says ( Life , p . 84 ) that ' Johnson was never greedy of money , but without money could not be stimulated to write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ...
... Letters , i . 318 . 3 Hawkins says ( Life , p . 84 ) that ' Johnson was never greedy of money , but without money could not be stimulated to write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ...
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... letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a ... Letters , i . lxxix , lxxxii . Swift wrote in 1735 , when he was sixty - seven : - ' I never got a farthing by ...
... letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a ... Letters , i . lxxix , lxxxii . Swift wrote in 1735 , when he was sixty - seven : - ' I never got a farthing by ...
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... letter by Griffiths the publisher , says : -The question is now decided by this letter in opposition to Dr. Johnson's asser ... Letters contain a very pleasing account of many parts of their journey . ' ' The style of Ma- dame de Sévigné ...
... letter by Griffiths the publisher , says : -The question is now decided by this letter in opposition to Dr. Johnson's asser ... Letters contain a very pleasing account of many parts of their journey . ' ' The style of Ma- dame de Sévigné ...
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380. oldal - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
455. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
455. oldal - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
381. oldal - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
154. oldal - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
302. oldal - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
72. oldal - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
13. oldal - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
358. oldal - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
159. oldal - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?