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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27. oldal
... consider rocks and rivers , but the manners , and the mechanic inventions , and the imperfect learning of the inhabitants ; resolved to penetrate into countries as yet little known , and eager to pry into all their secrets , with an ...
... consider rocks and rivers , but the manners , and the mechanic inventions , and the imperfect learning of the inhabitants ; resolved to penetrate into countries as yet little known , and eager to pry into all their secrets , with an ...
36. oldal
... consider , Sir , that a House of Commons is to the peo- ple as a Creature is to its Creator ' ? " To this question , said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that — in the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a ...
... consider , Sir , that a House of Commons is to the peo- ple as a Creature is to its Creator ' ? " To this question , said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that — in the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a ...
43. oldal
... considering that he had not read one of Rowe's plays for thirty years . ' Ib . vii . 417 . 1 Thus : - In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a reference to the Parliamentary History from which a long quotation is to be inserted ...
... considering that he had not read one of Rowe's plays for thirty years . ' Ib . vii . 417 . 1 Thus : - In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a reference to the Parliamentary History from which a long quotation is to be inserted ...
45. oldal
... considering the works of a poet ' , that amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; ' but I do not find that this is applicable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amendments in this work are for the better , there ...
... considering the works of a poet ' , that amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; ' but I do not find that this is applicable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amendments in this work are for the better , there ...
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... consider it with par- ticular attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work ' . " Various Readings in the Life of ADDISON . [ But he was our first great example ] He was , however , one of our earliest examples of ...
... consider it with par- ticular attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work ' . " Various Readings in the Life of ADDISON . [ But he was our first great example ] He was , however , one of our earliest examples of ...
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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.