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Pagina xiii
Indeed , as letters , few of 、 Johnson's can have any great charm for the common reader ; they are full of good sense and goodnature , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . If the editor could have ventured to ...
Indeed , as letters , few of 、 Johnson's can have any great charm for the common reader ; they are full of good sense and goodnature , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . If the editor could have ventured to ...
Pagina xxvi
I We must recollect that it is not his table - talk or his literary conversations only that have been published : all his most private and most trifling correspondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses ...
I We must recollect that it is not his table - talk or his literary conversations only that have been published : all his most private and most trifling correspondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses ...
Pagina xxxiii
Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great ...
Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great ...
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Johnson's mother [ was slight in her person , and rather below than above the common size . So excelaffidavit of the fact , that he may be prosecuted in the Exchequer . " It does not appear whether he offended again , but here is a ...
Johnson's mother [ was slight in her person , and rather below than above the common size . So excelaffidavit of the fact , that he may be prosecuted in the Exchequer . " It does not appear whether he offended again , but here is a ...
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When he was a child in petticoats , and had learnt to read , Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayerbook into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , “ Sam , you must get this by heart .
When he was a child in petticoats , and had learnt to read , Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayerbook into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , “ Sam , you must get this by heart .
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Pagina 250 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Pagina 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Pagina 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Pagina 249 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Pagina 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Pagina 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?
Pagina 50 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pagina 485 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
Pagina 118 - Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared...
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| Titel | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, John Wilson Croker |
| Auteur | James Boswell |
| Uitgever | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 11 feb 2008 |
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