Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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... heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much to the admiration of those who had no expectation of his skill in such matters , from the sight of a ...
... heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much to the admiration of those who had no expectation of his skill in such matters , from the sight of a ...
Pagina 4
... heard him relate an odd thing of himself , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he ...
... heard him relate an odd thing of himself , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he ...
Pagina 5
... heard him say , how educa- tion had been often compared to agriculture , yet that it resembled it chiefly in this : " that if nothing is sown , no crop , " says he , " can be obtained . " His contempt of the lady who fancied her son ...
... heard him say , how educa- tion had been often compared to agriculture , yet that it resembled it chiefly in this : " that if nothing is sown , no crop , " says he , " can be obtained . " His contempt of the lady who fancied her son ...
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... heard of heaven and hell , " he said , " because when his mother had made out such a description of both places as she thought likely to seize the attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and ...
... heard of heaven and hell , " he said , " because when his mother had made out such a description of both places as she thought likely to seize the attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and ...
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... heard , he said , that he was not famous for Greek literature , attacked him on the weak side ; politely adding , that he chose that conversation on purpose to favour himself . Our Doctor , however , displayed so copious , so ...
... heard , he said , that he was not famous for Greek literature , attacked him on the weak side ; politely adding , that he chose that conversation on purpose to favour himself . Our Doctor , however , displayed so copious , so ...
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Abbé Raynal acquaintance ALBEMARLE STREET ANECDOTES answer asked better Bishop Percy Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burney called character conversation David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor expressed favour favourite fear Frank Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith hated hear heard heart honour Hoole hope humour James Boswell knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived look Lord Lord Lyttelton loved Lucy Porter Madam manner mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion Parr perhaps person pleased pleasure Poets poor Portrait praise recollect religion remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson says Johnson seemed Seward Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told took truth verses virtue Whig wish words write written
Populaire passages
Pagina 388 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Pagina 467 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 439 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pagina 373 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pagina 467 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Pagina 384 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Pagina 391 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable.
Pagina 315 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Pagina 390 - Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Pagina 384 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence ; we cannot be certain...