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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41. oldal
... desire of giving useful pleasure . ' BOSWELL . * Institutiones , liber i . , Prooemium 3 . ' ' He had bargained for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred ; on this occasion Dr. Johnson observed to ...
... desire of giving useful pleasure . ' BOSWELL . * Institutiones , liber i . , Prooemium 3 . ' ' He had bargained for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred ; on this occasion Dr. Johnson observed to ...
52. oldal
... desires ; My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires , 1 See ante , iii . 81. BOSWELL . It is scarcely a defence . Whatever it was , he thus ends it : — ' It is natural to hope , that a comprehensive is likewise an elevated soul , and ...
... desires ; My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires , 1 See ante , iii . 81. BOSWELL . It is scarcely a defence . Whatever it was , he thus ends it : — ' It is natural to hope , that a comprehensive is likewise an elevated soul , and ...
66. oldal
... desire is to avoid offence , and be totally out of danger . I take the liberty of proposing to your lordship , that the historical account should be written under your direction by any friend you may be willing to employ , and I will ...
... desire is to avoid offence , and be totally out of danger . I take the liberty of proposing to your lordship , that the historical account should be written under your direction by any friend you may be willing to employ , and I will ...
78. oldal
... desire to destine them . ' My promise was pledged with the condition , that if the letters were found to contain any thing which should render them im- proper for the publick eye , you would dispense with the perform- ance of it . You ...
... desire to destine them . ' My promise was pledged with the condition , that if the letters were found to contain any thing which should render them im- proper for the publick eye , you would dispense with the perform- ance of it . You ...
79. oldal
... desires and luxury enjoys . But my knowledge of them is too scanty to furnish me with proper topicks of enquiry ; I can only wish for information ; and hope , that a mind compre- hensive like yours will find leisure , amidst the cares ...
... desires and luxury enjoys . But my knowledge of them is too scanty to furnish me with proper topicks of enquiry ; I can only wish for information ; and hope , that a mind compre- hensive like yours will find leisure , amidst the cares ...
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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.