Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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4. oldal
... lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence1 . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James2 was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London ...
... lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence1 . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James2 was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London ...
20. oldal
... lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning ...
... lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning ...
40. oldal
... lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having begun by attacking people ; particularly the players3 . He reminded Dr. Johnson of Mr. Murphy's having paid him ' The gradual progress which Iago ...
... lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having begun by attacking people ; particularly the players3 . He reminded Dr. Johnson of Mr. Murphy's having paid him ' The gradual progress which Iago ...
54. oldal
... lived much with him , and in his quaint manner , tapping his box , addressed her thus : ' Don't you think , Madam , ( looking towards Johnson , ) that among all your acquaintance , you could find one exception ? ' The lady smiled , and ...
... lived much with him , and in his quaint manner , tapping his box , addressed her thus : ' Don't you think , Madam , ( looking towards Johnson , ) that among all your acquaintance , you could find one exception ? ' The lady smiled , and ...
64. oldal
... lived in habits of friendship with both3 . I could fully relish the excellence of each ; for I I ' Quæque ipse miserrima vidi , Et quorum pars magna fui . ' ' Which thing myself unhappy did behold , Yea , and was no small part thereof ...
... lived in habits of friendship with both3 . I could fully relish the excellence of each ; for I I ' Quæque ipse miserrima vidi , Et quorum pars magna fui . ' ' Which thing myself unhappy did behold , Yea , and was no small part thereof ...
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acquaintance Aetat afterwards Anec ante April April 15 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote kind lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion passage Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travelling truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write
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173. oldal - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
173. oldal - 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 the ruins of lona.
455. 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.
381. oldal - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
72. oldal - All this may be; the People's voice is odd; It is, and it is not, the voice of God. To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule; Why then, I say, the Public is a fool. But let them own that greater faults than we...
296. oldal - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
85. oldal - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it : but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
455. oldal - He had, in the highest degree, that noble faculty whereby man is able to live in the past and in the future, in the distant and in the unreal. India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and...
167. oldal - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
201. oldal - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?