The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... Young Col - Birch - Percy- " Every Island is a Prison " -Corrichatachin - Good Fellowship - and Head - ache - Kings . burgh's Song - Lady Margaret Macdonald - Threshing and Thatching - Price of Labour- Ostig - Shenstone - Hammond - Sir ...
... Young Col - Birch - Percy- " Every Island is a Prison " -Corrichatachin - Good Fellowship - and Head - ache - Kings . burgh's Song - Lady Margaret Macdonald - Threshing and Thatching - Price of Labour- Ostig - Shenstone - Hammond - Sir ...
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... Young Col's good Qualities -Solander - Burke - Johnson's Intrepidity — Singular Customs - French Credulity , . 896 CHAPTER XXI . 1773 . Voyage to Iona - Death of young Col - M'Kinnon's Cave- " La Crédulite des Incrédules " — Coast of ...
... Young Col's good Qualities -Solander - Burke - Johnson's Intrepidity — Singular Customs - French Credulity , . 896 CHAPTER XXI . 1773 . Voyage to Iona - Death of young Col - M'Kinnon's Cave- " La Crédulite des Incrédules " — Coast of ...
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... young , handsome , learned , and eloquent . In 1769 , a French army , commanded by Marshal de Vaux , landed in Corsica . The inhabitants fought resolutely ; but , driven to the south of the island , Paoli embarked , June 16 , in an ...
... young , handsome , learned , and eloquent . In 1769 , a French army , commanded by Marshal de Vaux , landed in Corsica . The inhabitants fought resolutely ; but , driven to the south of the island , Paoli embarked , June 16 , in an ...
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... young people were misled by his witty , though false observations , Mrs. Montagu's Essay was of service to Shakspeare with a certain class of readers , and is , therefore , entitled to praise . Johnson , I am assured , allowed the merit ...
... young people were misled by his witty , though false observations , Mrs. Montagu's Essay was of service to Shakspeare with a certain class of readers , and is , therefore , entitled to praise . Johnson , I am assured , allowed the merit ...
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... young man who kept a pickle- shop . JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , here you have a specimen of human Six unhappy men were executed at Tyburn , on Wednesday , the 18th ( one day before ) It was one of the irregularities of Mr. Boswell's mind to ...
... young man who kept a pickle- shop . JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , here you have a specimen of human Six unhappy men were executed at Tyburn , on Wednesday , the 18th ( one day before ) It was one of the irregularities of Mr. Boswell's mind to ...
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414. 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...
136. 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.
360. 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.
101. oldal - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
158. 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.
260. 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'.
94. 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.
435. 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?
87. 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.