The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, 5. kötet1852 |
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xxi. oldal
... night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at different times . Self - deception SEPTEMBER 27.-Dr. Johnson's popularity in the Isle of Sky . His ...
... night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at different times . Self - deception SEPTEMBER 27.-Dr. Johnson's popularity in the Isle of Sky . His ...
8. oldal
... night : I could not prevent his being assailed by the evening effluvia of Edinburgh . I heard a late baronet , of some dis tinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of ...
... night : I could not prevent his being assailed by the evening effluvia of Edinburgh . I heard a late baronet , of some dis tinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of ...
10. oldal
... night his house was beset with affectionate inquiries ; and upon his recovery , Te Deum was the universal chorus from the hearts of his countrymen . * His Mr. Johnson was pleased with my daughter Veronica , then a child of about four ...
... night his house was beset with affectionate inquiries ; and upon his recovery , Te Deum was the universal chorus from the hearts of his countrymen . * His Mr. Johnson was pleased with my daughter Veronica , then a child of about four ...
20. oldal
... night looked into Lord Hailes's " Remarks on the History of Scotland . " Dr. Robertson and I said it was a pity Lord Hailes did not write greater things . His lordship had not then published his " Annals of Scotland . " * - JOHNSON ...
... night looked into Lord Hailes's " Remarks on the History of Scotland . " Dr. Robertson and I said it was a pity Lord Hailes did not write greater things . His lordship had not then published his " Annals of Scotland . " * - JOHNSON ...
25. oldal
... Night : " " And ran him through the fair body . " + * He was seven times elected Provost of Edinburgh , and died in 1766. A bust of Mr. Drummond by Nollekens was placed in the entrance hall of the Infirmary . - ED . † The stanza from ...
... Night : " " And ran him through the fair body . " + * He was seven times elected Provost of Edinburgh , and died in 1766. A bust of Mr. Drummond by Nollekens was placed in the entrance hall of the Infirmary . - ED . † The stanza from ...
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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.