Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 4. kötetHarper, 1891 |
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... believe he was not pleased . ' ' Once he asked Tom Davies , whom he saw drest in a fine suit of clothes , " And what art thou to - night ? " Tom an- swered , " The Thane of Ross ' ; " ( which it will be recol- lected is a very ...
... believe he was not pleased . ' ' Once he asked Tom Davies , whom he saw drest in a fine suit of clothes , " And what art thou to - night ? " Tom an- swered , " The Thane of Ross ' ; " ( which it will be recol- lected is a very ...
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... believe , Sir , you may have remarked , that the making a partial change , without a due regard to the general structure of the sentence , is a very frequent cause of errour in composition . " 199 ' Johnson was well acquainted with Mr ...
... believe , Sir , you may have remarked , that the making a partial change , without a due regard to the general structure of the sentence , is a very frequent cause of errour in composition . " 199 ' Johnson was well acquainted with Mr ...
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... believe that Barnes had as much Greek and understood it about as well as an Athenian blacksmith . ' See ante , iii . 322. A passage in Wooll's Life of Dr. Warton ( i . 313 ) shews that Barnes attempted to prove that Homer and Solomon ...
... believe that Barnes had as much Greek and understood it about as well as an Athenian blacksmith . ' See ante , iii . 322. A passage in Wooll's Life of Dr. Warton ( i . 313 ) shews that Barnes attempted to prove that Homer and Solomon ...
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... believe . Perhaps , if we speak with rigorous exactness , no human mind is in its right state . ' Rasselas , ch . xliv . See ante , i . 459 , for Kit Smart's madness in praying . Yet he gave lessons in Latin to Miss Burney and Miss ...
... believe . Perhaps , if we speak with rigorous exactness , no human mind is in its right state . ' Rasselas , ch . xliv . See ante , i . 459 , for Kit Smart's madness in praying . Yet he gave lessons in Latin to Miss Burney and Miss ...
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... his contemporaries . " Sir , " said Johnson , " I believe that is true . The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity . " - R . Warner's Original Letters , p . 204 . delight Aetat . 72. ] Johnson's payment for THE LIVES .
... his contemporaries . " Sir , " said Johnson , " I believe that is true . The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity . " - R . Warner's Original Letters , p . 204 . delight Aetat . 72. ] Johnson's payment for THE LIVES .
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320. oldal - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
457. 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...
54. oldal - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
466. oldal - I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.'—' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.
211. oldal - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfum'd with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew, Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.
457. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
198. oldal - Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...
123. oldal - We can do nothing without the blue stockings " ; and thus by degrees the title was established.
112. oldal - A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eve begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (Conceit's expositor...
473. oldal - Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last ! On the 'Death of Mr.