Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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14. oldal
... give what are called lectures . The boys construe a classic , the jolly young tutor lolls in his elbow - chair , and seldom gives himself the trouble of interrupting the greatest dunce . ' Ib . p . 199. Some societies would have been ...
... give what are called lectures . The boys construe a classic , the jolly young tutor lolls in his elbow - chair , and seldom gives himself the trouble of interrupting the greatest dunce . ' Ib . p . 199. Some societies would have been ...
15. oldal
... give no reparation . This led us to agitate the question , whether legal redress could be obtained , even when a man's deceased relation was calumniated in a publication . Mr. Murray maintained there should be re- paration , unless the ...
... give no reparation . This led us to agitate the question , whether legal redress could be obtained , even when a man's deceased relation was calumniated in a publication . Mr. Murray maintained there should be re- paration , unless the ...
26. oldal
... give to be forty years from Scotland ? ' I said , ' I should not like to be so long absent from the seat of my ancestors . ' This gentleman , Mrs. Williams , and Mr. Levet , dined with us . Dr. Johnson made a remark , which both Mr ...
... give to be forty years from Scotland ? ' I said , ' I should not like to be so long absent from the seat of my ancestors . ' This gentleman , Mrs. Williams , and Mr. Levet , dined with us . Dr. Johnson made a remark , which both Mr ...
44. oldal
... give me more trouble . ' Please to write to me immediately , if they can be found . Make my compliments to all our friends round the world , and to Mrs. Williams at home . ' I am , Sir , your , & c . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' Search for the ...
... give me more trouble . ' Please to write to me immediately , if they can be found . Make my compliments to all our friends round the world , and to Mrs. Williams at home . ' I am , Sir , your , & c . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' Search for the ...
47. oldal
... give judg- ment against him ; coal - heavers and porters pulling down the houses of coal - merchants that refuse to give them more wages ; sawyers de- stroying saw - milis ; sailors unrigging all the outward - bound ships , and ...
... give judg- ment against him ; coal - heavers and porters pulling down the houses of coal - merchants that refuse to give them more wages ; sawyers de- stroying saw - milis ; sailors unrigging all the outward - bound ships , and ...
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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?