The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516 pagina's |
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... letter , and , if I can form upon your cafe any resolution satisfactory to myself , will very gladly impart it : but whether I am quite equal to it , I do not know . It is a cafe compounded of law and justice , and requires a mind ...
... letter , and , if I can form upon your cafe any resolution satisfactory to myself , will very gladly impart it : but whether I am quite equal to it , I do not know . It is a cafe compounded of law and justice , and requires a mind ...
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... letter , in which he difcuffed with legal and historical learning , the points in which I faw much difficulty , maintaining that " the fucceffion of heirs general was the fucceffion , by the law of Scotland , from the throne to the ...
... letter , in which he difcuffed with legal and historical learning , the points in which I faw much difficulty , maintaining that " the fucceffion of heirs general was the fucceffion , by the law of Scotland , from the throne to the ...
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... letters which I have written about your great queftion I have nothing to add . If your confcience is fatisfied , you have ... letter was very friendly , and very feasonable , but I think his averfion from entails has fomething in it like ...
... letters which I have written about your great queftion I have nothing to add . If your confcience is fatisfied , you have ... letter was very friendly , and very feasonable , but I think his averfion from entails has fomething in it like ...
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... letter half an hour ; as you lay fo much weight upon my notions , I fhould think it not just to delay my answer . " I am very forry that your melancholy fhould return , and fhould be forry likewife if it could have no relief but from my ...
... letter half an hour ; as you lay fo much weight upon my notions , I fhould think it not just to delay my answer . " I am very forry that your melancholy fhould return , and fhould be forry likewife if it could have no relief but from my ...
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... letter upon the subject , which at once exhibits his extraordinary precision and acutenefs , and his warm attachment ... letter . " The laft part of the Doctor's letter is of great importance . The com- plaint which he makes I have heard ...
... letter upon the subject , which at once exhibits his extraordinary precision and acutenefs , and his warm attachment ... letter . " The laft part of the Doctor's letter is of great importance . The com- plaint which he makes I have heard ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1807 |
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Pagina 350 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Pagina 83 - But he has wit too, and is not deficient in ideas, or in fertility and variety of imagery, and not empty of reading; he has knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands; but he's gone, Sir, when you think you have got him — like an animal that jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is under...
Pagina 157 - 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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Pagina 458 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen, that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty ; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Pagina 390 - ... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Pagina 152 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Pagina 160 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pagina 235 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy*. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ', nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Pagina 318 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
Pagina 253 - All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's