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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... mind ; and I compared it to Herculaneum , or some old Roman field , which when dug , fully rewards the labour em- ployed . The authenticity of every article is unquestion- able . For the expression , I , who wrote them down in his ...
... mind ; and I compared it to Herculaneum , or some old Roman field , which when dug , fully rewards the labour em- ployed . The authenticity of every article is unquestion- able . For the expression , I , who wrote them down in his ...
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... mind was prepared to receive it , and that therefore , Jack the Giant- Killer , Parisenus and Parismenus , and The ... minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes ; " Remember always , " said he ...
... mind was prepared to receive it , and that therefore , Jack the Giant- Killer , Parisenus and Parismenus , and The ... minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes ; " Remember always , " said he ...
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... mind of the writer seems to work with unnat- ural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . " strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease and nature ...
... mind of the writer seems to work with unnat- ural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . " strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease and nature ...
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... mind to give him ; on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the lan- guages which I knew . ' Croker's ...
... mind to give him ; on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the lan- guages which I knew . ' Croker's ...
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... mind , but not accus- tomed to write verse ' ; for there is some uncouthness in the expression ' . " ' ' Drinking tea one day at Garrick's with Mr. Langton , he was questioned if he was not somewhat of a heretick as to Shakspeare ; said ...
... mind , but not accus- tomed to write verse ' ; for there is some uncouthness in the expression ' . " ' ' Drinking tea one day at Garrick's with Mr. Langton , he was questioned if he was not somewhat of a heretick as to Shakspeare ; said ...
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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.