The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 4. kötetJ. Murray, 1831 |
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9. oldal
... question you . You may therefore pay compliments without saying what is not true . I should say to Lord Scarsdale of his large room , ' My lord , this is the most costly room that I ever saw ; ' which is true . " " " Dr. Manningham ...
... question you . You may therefore pay compliments without saying what is not true . I should say to Lord Scarsdale of his large room , ' My lord , this is the most costly room that I ever saw ; ' which is true . " " " Dr. Manningham ...
27. oldal
... , no , sir , " said he , " don't pity me ; what I now feel is ease , compared with that torture of mind from which it relieves me . " - BOSWELL . We entered seriously upon a question of much importance to 1777. — ÆTAT . 68 . 27.
... , no , sir , " said he , " don't pity me ; what I now feel is ease , compared with that torture of mind from which it relieves me . " - BOSWELL . We entered seriously upon a question of much importance to 1777. — ÆTAT . 68 . 27.
28. oldal
... question of much importance to me , which Johnson was pleased to consider with friendly attention . I had long com- plained to him that I felt myself discontented in Scotland , as too narrow a sphere , and that I wished to make my chief ...
... question of much importance to me , which Johnson was pleased to consider with friendly attention . I had long com- plained to him that I felt myself discontented in Scotland , as too narrow a sphere , and that I wished to make my chief ...
31. oldal
... question : " Will it pur- chase occupation ? " JOHNSON . " Depend upon it , sir , this saying is too refined for a savage . And , sir , money will purchase occupation ; it will purchase all the conveniences of life ; it will purchase ...
... question : " Will it pur- chase occupation ? " JOHNSON . " Depend upon it , sir , this saying is too refined for a savage . And , sir , money will purchase occupation ; it will purchase all the conveniences of life ; it will purchase ...
41. oldal
... question it is not safe to rest on Mr. Boswell's colloquial phrases , which have some importance when they appear to be sanctioned by the concurrence of Dr. Johnson . Im- mortality is , indeed , assured , and a thousand social blessings ...
... question it is not safe to rest on Mr. Boswell's colloquial phrases , which have some importance when they appear to be sanctioned by the concurrence of Dr. Johnson . Im- mortality is , indeed , assured , and a thousand social blessings ...
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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.