The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1J. Murray, 1831 |
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Pagina xxiv
... talk so various , so loose , and i so extensive ; but he has endeavoured to alleviate ita by soccasional references to the different places where the same subject is discussed , and by a copious , and he trusts , satisfactory index . As ...
... talk so various , so loose , and i so extensive ; but he has endeavoured to alleviate ita by soccasional references to the different places where the same subject is discussed , and by a copious , and he trusts , satisfactory index . As ...
Pagina xxvi
... talk or his literary conversations only that have been pub- lished all his most private and most trifling cor- respondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses all his most secret communion with his own ...
... talk or his literary conversations only that have been pub- lished all his most private and most trifling cor- respondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses all his most secret communion with his own ...
Pagina xxvii
... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extraordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way , almost ...
... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extraordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way , almost ...
Pagina xxviii
... Talk , Swift's Journal , and Spence's Anecdotes , only tan- talise our curiosity and excite our regret that there was no Boswell to preserve the conversation and illustrate the life and times of Addison , of Swift him- self , of Milton ...
... Talk , Swift's Journal , and Spence's Anecdotes , only tan- talise our curiosity and excite our regret that there was no Boswell to preserve the conversation and illustrate the life and times of Addison , of Swift him- self , of Milton ...
Pagina xl
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
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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...