The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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14. oldal
... pleased with such fantastical stuff . Mrs. Thrale stood to her gun with great courage , in defence of amorous ditties , which Johnson despised , till he at last silenced her by saying , " My dear lady , talk no more of this . Nonsense ...
... pleased with such fantastical stuff . Mrs. Thrale stood to her gun with great courage , in defence of amorous ditties , which Johnson despised , till he at last silenced her by saying , " My dear lady , talk no more of this . Nonsense ...
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... pleased to mention John Filby , at the Harrow , in Water Lane . " " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it , and thus they might hear of him , and see how well he could ...
... pleased to mention John Filby , at the Harrow , in Water Lane . " " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it , and thus they might hear of him , and see how well he could ...
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... pleased to mention John Filby , at the Harrow , in Water Lane . ' " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it , and thus they might hear of him , and see how well he could ...
... pleased to mention John Filby , at the Harrow , in Water Lane . ' " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it , and thus they might hear of him , and see how well he could ...
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... it , that my task was very easy . He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middle- sex election to be read . I had hired a Bohemian as my servant while I remained in Lon- don ; and being much pleased with him , I 9. *
... it , that my task was very easy . He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middle- sex election to be read . I had hired a Bohemian as my servant while I remained in Lon- don ; and being much pleased with him , I 9. *
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James Boswell. don ; and being much pleased with him , I asked Dr. Johnson whether his being a Roman Catholic should prevent my taking him with me to Scotland . JOHNSON . " Why no , Sir . If he has no objection , you can have none ...
James Boswell. don ; and being much pleased with him , I asked Dr. Johnson whether his being a Roman Catholic should prevent my taking him with me to Scotland . JOHNSON . " Why no , Sir . If he has no objection , you can have none ...
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416. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
138. oldal - I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy — making an audience merry.
362. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
103. oldal - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
160. oldal - ... the assistance of one of the ablest lawyers in the kingdom ;' and he will read it to him (laughing all the time). He believes he has made this will ; but he did not make it: you, Chambers, made it for him. I trust you have had more conscience than to make him say, ' being of sound understanding ;' ha, ha, ha ! I hope he has left me a legacy. I'd have his will turned into verse, like a ballad.
262. oldal - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
96. oldal - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
48. oldal - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
437. oldal - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?
89. oldal - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.