Johnsonian Miscellanies, 1. kötetGeorge Birkbeck Norman Hill At the Clarendon Press, 1897 - 517 oldal |
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... or on the shores of the Mediterranean , an editor , how- ever much he may be supported by the climate , has to struggle against difficulties which might almost overwhelm him . Many a day a day he ' casts a long look ' towards.
... or on the shores of the Mediterranean , an editor , how- ever much he may be supported by the climate , has to struggle against difficulties which might almost overwhelm him . Many a day a day he ' casts a long look ' towards.
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George Birkbeck Norman Hill. a day he ' casts a long look ' towards the Bodleian and the British Museum . Many a day he thinks with idle regret of his own study , where he is surrounded by those books to which he has often to refer . The ...
George Birkbeck Norman Hill. a day he ' casts a long look ' towards the Bodleian and the British Museum . Many a day he thinks with idle regret of his own study , where he is surrounded by those books to which he has often to refer . The ...
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... ness and levity of the present age . I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure , which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment . ' PRAYERS 12 . PRAYERS COMPOSED BY ME ON THE DEATH OF Prayers and Meditations .
... ness and levity of the present age . I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure , which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment . ' PRAYERS 12 . PRAYERS COMPOSED BY ME ON THE DEATH OF Prayers and Meditations .
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... look down with pity upon my sorrows , and grant that the affliction which it has pleased Thee to bring upon me , may awaken my conscience , enforce my resolutions of a better life , and impress upon me such conviction of thy power and ...
... look down with pity upon my sorrows , and grant that the affliction which it has pleased Thee to bring upon me , may awaken my conscience , enforce my resolutions of a better life , and impress upon me such conviction of thy power and ...
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... look down . upon me with pity . Forgive me , that I have this day neglected the duty which Thou hast assigned to it , and suffered the hours , of which I must give account , to pass away without any endeavour to accomplish thy will , or ...
... look down . upon me with pity . Forgive me , that I have this day neglected the duty which Thou hast assigned to it , and suffered the hours , of which I must give account , to pass away without any endeavour to accomplish thy will , or ...
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418. oldal - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
439. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
428. oldal - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
186. oldal - Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
252. 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.
196. 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.
473. oldal - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
428. oldal - That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal, and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next.
45. oldal - Tragedy/ though unrhymed, does ' lie in every deathbed, were it a peasant's, and of straw : ' ' Sunday, October 18, 1767. Yesterday, at about ten in the morning, I took my leave forever of my dear old friend, Catherine Chambers, who came to live with my mother about 1724, and has been but little parted from us since. She buried my father, my brother and my mother. She is now fifty-eight years old.
458. oldal - Iracundior est paulo, minus aptus acutis Naribus horum hominum, rideri possit, eo quod Rusticius tonso toga defluit, et male laxus In pede calceus...