The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 4. kötetJ. Murray, 1831 |
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12. oldal
... once attended a man in trade , upon whom he found none of the medicines he prescribed had any effect ; he asked the man's wife privately whether his affairs were not in a bad way ? She said no . He continued his attendance some time ...
... once attended a man in trade , upon whom he found none of the medicines he prescribed had any effect ; he asked the man's wife privately whether his affairs were not in a bad way ? She said no . He continued his attendance some time ...
17. oldal
... once . JOHNSON . " This rule , sir , cannot hold in all cases ; for many people have their sleep broken by sickness ; and surely , Cullen would not have a man to get up , after having slept but an hour . Such a regimen would soon end in ...
... once . JOHNSON . " This rule , sir , cannot hold in all cases ; for many people have their sleep broken by sickness ; and surely , Cullen would not have a man to get up , after having slept but an hour . Such a regimen would soon end in ...
23. oldal
... once said to me , in a pleasant humour , " Sir , if Robertson's 1 When Dr. Blair published his " Lectures , " he was invidiously attacked for having omitted his censure on Johnson's style , and , on the contrary , praising it highly ...
... once said to me , in a pleasant humour , " Sir , if Robertson's 1 When Dr. Blair published his " Lectures , " he was invidiously attacked for having omitted his censure on Johnson's style , and , on the contrary , praising it highly ...
35. oldal
... once so elegant , so apparently artless , so pure , and so pleasing , it seemed a perpetual stream of sentiment , enlivened by gaiety , and sparkling with images . " Mrs. Piozzi used to think Mr. Johnson's determined preference of a ...
... once so elegant , so apparently artless , so pure , and so pleasing , it seemed a perpetual stream of sentiment , enlivened by gaiety , and sparkling with images . " Mrs. Piozzi used to think Mr. Johnson's determined preference of a ...
48. oldal
... once relieved by him from an arrest ; but I never was present when he was arrested , never knew that he was arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved me . I loved him much ; yet , in talking ...
... once relieved by him from an arrest ; but I never was present when he was arrested , never knew that he was arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved me . I loved him much ; yet , in talking ...
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465. oldal - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
15. oldal - No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm ; and that I felt all the dulcedo of the natale solum.
398. oldal - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
464. oldal - It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear...
110. 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.
238. oldal - I reminded him how heartily he and I used to drink wine together, when we were first acquainted ; and how I used to have a headache after sitting up with him. He did not like to have this recalled, or, perhaps, thinking that I boasted improperly, resolved to have a witty stroke at ine ; " Nay, sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it.
180. oldal - We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us...
1. oldal - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
426. oldal - I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery. What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
465. oldal - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.