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, 6. kötetHarper, 1891 |
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xxxvi. oldal
... call upon me , for I shall be glad of an op- portunity to show that my reception at Saint Andrews has not been forgotten . ' I am Sir , Your humble Servant . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' • Oct. 14 , 1776. ' The ' copy ' or MS . that Johnson sent ...
... call upon me , for I shall be glad of an op- portunity to show that my reception at Saint Andrews has not been forgotten . ' I am Sir , Your humble Servant . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' • Oct. 14 , 1776. ' The ' copy ' or MS . that Johnson sent ...
xl. oldal
... calls the book Florismarte de Hircania ( not Florismante ) . It should seem that he made his hero read the Italian version . Palmerin of England and Don Belianis . ( Vol . i . p . 57 , n . 3 ; and vol . iii . p . 2. ) " " Let Palmerin ...
... calls the book Florismarte de Hircania ( not Florismante ) . It should seem that he made his hero read the Italian version . Palmerin of England and Don Belianis . ( Vol . i . p . 57 , n . 3 ; and vol . iii . p . 2. ) " " Let Palmerin ...
xliv. oldal
... calls students by informing them of them privately . For proof of this charge against the man whose boast it was that ' obscenity had always been repressed in his company ' ( ante , iv . 341 ) he brings forward John Wilkes . The story ...
... calls students by informing them of them privately . For proof of this charge against the man whose boast it was that ' obscenity had always been repressed in his company ' ( ante , iv . 341 ) he brings forward John Wilkes . The story ...
lii. oldal
... call in Leamington . The servant asked him for his name , he could not remember it ; in perplexity he went away , when a friend in the street met him and accosted him , " How do you do , Mr. Biddle ? ” " Oh , Biddle , Biddle , Biddle ...
... call in Leamington . The servant asked him for his name , he could not remember it ; in perplexity he went away , when a friend in the street met him and accosted him , " How do you do , Mr. Biddle ? ” " Oh , Biddle , Biddle , Biddle ...
lv. oldal
... call on him , but Baretti was leaving town . When he returned the time for a reconciliation had passed , for Johnson was dead . English pulpit eloquence . ( Vol . iii . p . 282. ) ' Upon the whole , which is preferable , the philosophic ...
... call on him , but Baretti was leaving town . When he returned the time for a reconciliation had passed , for Johnson was dead . English pulpit eloquence . ( Vol . iii . p . 282. ) ' Upon the whole , which is preferable , the philosophic ...
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322. oldal - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
315. oldal - Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
lxvi. oldal - My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
lxiv. oldal - I was willing, and I am now willing, to allow him a handsome share of the honour of my conversion: yet I must observe that it was principally effected by my private reflections; and I still remember my solitary transport at the discovery of a philosophical argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation...
301. oldal - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
320. oldal - Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
xxviii. oldal - When I was with you last night I told you of a story x which I was preparing for the press. The title will be ' The Choice of Life or The History of Prince of Abissinia.
309. oldal - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
318. oldal - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, "Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
310. oldal - If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody that stood in the way. Consider, if all this had happened to Gibber or Quin, they'd have jumped over the moon. Yet Garrick speaks to us" (smiling). BOSWELL : " And Garrick is a very good man, a charitable man.