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Pagina vii
... that several of them have become so obscure that even the surviving members of the Johnsonian society are unable to recollect who were meant , and it was on one of these occasions that Sir James Mackintosh told the editor that " his ...
... that several of them have become so obscure that even the surviving members of the Johnsonian society are unable to recollect who were meant , and it was on one of these occasions that Sir James Mackintosh told the editor that " his ...
Pagina ix
... repeat a pleasant anecdote told by the Bishop of Ferns . The late Lord Avonmore giving evidence relative to certain certificates of degrees in the University of Dublin , called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums .
... repeat a pleasant anecdote told by the Bishop of Ferns . The late Lord Avonmore giving evidence relative to certain certificates of degrees in the University of Dublin , called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums .
Pagina xxvii
-mfol Mr. Burke told Sir James Mackintosh that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in ...
-mfol Mr. Burke told Sir James Mackintosh that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in ...
Pagina 6
My mother , who had lived in a narrow sphere , and was then affected by little things , told me seriously that it would be hardly ever forgotten . Her mind , I think , was afterwards very much enlarged , or greater evils wore out the ...
My mother , who had lived in a narrow sphere , and was then affected by little things , told me seriously that it would be hardly ever forgotten . Her mind , I think , was afterwards very much enlarged , or greater evils wore out the ...
Pagina 8
100 , on , as it would seem , the doubtful authority of Miss Seward , that Doctor Johnson had told it . Admitting that he did so , it is to be observed that the fact happened fifteen years before his birth ; and his father may be ...
100 , on , as it would seem , the doubtful authority of Miss Seward , that Doctor Johnson had told it . Admitting that he did so , it is to be observed that the fact happened fifteen years before his birth ; and his father may be ...
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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...