The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, 5. kötet1852 |
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xi. oldal
... laird of Lochbuy could have foreseen how he was to be repre- resented by his visitor , he would assuredly have thrust him into the dungeon of his old castle , though it should have cost him a second trial and fine ; and the chief of the ...
... laird of Lochbuy could have foreseen how he was to be repre- resented by his visitor , he would assuredly have thrust him into the dungeon of his old castle , though it should have cost him a second trial and fine ; and the chief of the ...
xv. oldal
... laird . It was difficult for a needy embarrassed pro- prietor to resist temptations like this . The patriarchal system was forgotten , the stranger was preferred , and many of the smaller tenants were dispossessed of their holdings ...
... laird . It was difficult for a needy embarrassed pro- prietor to resist temptations like this . The patriarchal system was forgotten , the stranger was preferred , and many of the smaller tenants were dispossessed of their holdings ...
xx. oldal
... Laird of Macleod SEPTEMBER 12. - Sail to Portree . Dr. Johnson's discourse on death . Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson and the author . Dr. Johnson's answer . Ride to Kingsburgh . Flora Macdonald • • 139 · SEPTEMBER 13 ...
... Laird of Macleod SEPTEMBER 12. - Sail to Portree . Dr. Johnson's discourse on death . Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson and the author . Dr. Johnson's answer . Ride to Kingsburgh . Flora Macdonald • • 139 · SEPTEMBER 13 ...
xxi. oldal
... Laird of the Isle of Muck SEPTEMBER 19. - Choice of a wife . Women an over - match for men . Lady Grange in St. Kilda . Poetry of savages . French literati . Prize - fighting . French and English soldiers . Duelling • • SEPTEMBER 20 ...
... Laird of the Isle of Muck SEPTEMBER 19. - Choice of a wife . Women an over - match for men . Lady Grange in St. Kilda . Poetry of savages . French literati . Prize - fighting . French and English soldiers . Duelling • • SEPTEMBER 20 ...
xxiii. oldal
... laird OCTOBER 22. - Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson , and rejected . Loch- buy's war - saddle . Sail to Oban OCTOBER 23. - Goldsmith's " Traveller . " Pope and Cowley compared . Archibald Duke of Argyle . Arrive at Inverary ...
... laird OCTOBER 22. - Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson , and rejected . Loch- buy's war - saddle . Sail to Oban OCTOBER 23. - Goldsmith's " Traveller . " Pope and Cowley compared . Archibald Duke of Argyle . Arrive at Inverary ...
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Aberdeen afterwards Allan Maclean ancient appearance asked believe better boat Boswell breakfast called Campbell castle chief church clan conversation Corrichatachin daughter died dinner Donald Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give Grugach Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Inchkenneth Inverness island Isle James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey King Kingsburgh knew Lady laird land Lawrence Kirk learned lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Monboddo Macaulay Mackenzie Mackinnon Maclean Macleod Macqueen Malcolm mentioned miles mind minister Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles Rasay remarked Samuel Johnson Scotland Scottish seemed servant shore Sir Alexander Sir Allan Skye spirit Talisker talked tell tenants things thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took tour walked write young
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267. oldal - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
19. oldal - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. — 'Nay (said Dr. Johnson) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
13. oldal - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
92. oldal - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
17. oldal - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
56. oldal - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
259. 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.
68. oldal - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
3. oldal - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
39. oldal - I never read of a hermit, but in imagination I kiss his feet : never of a monastery, but I could fall on my knees, and kiss the pavement.