Johnsonian Miscellanies, 1. kötetGeorge Birkbeck Norman Hill At the Clarendon Press, 1897 - 517 oldal |
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ix. oldal
... sure whether I was not for the second time including in my selection what had been included before . The imperfections of such a piece of work as this are often more clearly seen by the editor than even by the most sharp- sighted ...
... sure whether I was not for the second time including in my selection what had been included before . The imperfections of such a piece of work as this are often more clearly seen by the editor than even by the most sharp- sighted ...
82. oldal
... sure I should not claim them ; indeed I had no right to them after I had been paid for them . " He also added that they were generally copied in his own study by those that employed him , and when finished he always destroyed the ...
... sure I should not claim them ; indeed I had no right to them after I had been paid for them . " He also added that they were generally copied in his own study by those that employed him , and when finished he always destroyed the ...
127. oldal
... sure , we have lost ; which were two quarto volumes , containing a full , fair , and most particular account of his own life , from his earliest recollection . ' .... It does not appear , that the MS . from which the following short ...
... sure , we have lost ; which were two quarto volumes , containing a full , fair , and most particular account of his own life , from his earliest recollection . ' .... It does not appear , that the MS . from which the following short ...
144. oldal
... sure that they have done so . As the Duke says however to the Weaver , in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' Never excuse ; if your play be a bad one , keep at least the excuses to yourself ' . ' I am aware that many will say , I have not ...
... sure that they have done so . As the Duke says however to the Weaver , in A Midsummer Night's Dream , ' Never excuse ; if your play be a bad one , keep at least the excuses to yourself ' . ' I am aware that many will say , I have not ...
153. oldal
... sure to precede some unpleasing display of his early abilities ; and he used , when neighbours came o'visiting , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , such , as no doubt he was , a prodigy of early understanding ...
... sure to precede some unpleasing display of his early abilities ; and he used , when neighbours came o'visiting , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , such , as no doubt he was , a prodigy of early understanding ...
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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...