Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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Pagina 7
... looks like the son of a schoolmaster ; which , " added he , " is one of the very worst conditions of childhood : such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent , but the reflection brings to his mind ...
... looks like the son of a schoolmaster ; which , " added he , " is one of the very worst conditions of childhood : such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent , but the reflection brings to his mind ...
Pagina 16
... look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now , " says he , " to tell of his own disgrace ! " In the course of that hour's chat , he told me how he used to tease Garrick by ...
... look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now , " says he , " to tell of his own disgrace ! " In the course of that hour's chat , he told me how he used to tease Garrick by ...
Pagina 34
... looks and a softened voice , joined in the general chat , insensibly led the conversation to the subject of marriage , where he laid himself out in a dissertation so useful , so elegant , so founded on the true knowledge of human life ...
... looks and a softened voice , joined in the general chat , insensibly led the conversation to the subject of marriage , where he laid himself out in a dissertation so useful , so elegant , so founded on the true knowledge of human life ...
Pagina 36
... look , " when I know how many poor families will perish next winter for want of that bread which the present drought will deny them , to hear ladies sighing for rain , only that their complexions may not suffer from the heat , or their ...
... look , " when I know how many poor families will perish next winter for want of that bread which the present drought will deny them , to hear ladies sighing for rain , only that their complexions may not suffer from the heat , or their ...
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... look little when compared to my favourite friends the Pepyses , whose translations were unquestionably the best . I will insert them , because he did say so . This is the distich given me by Sir Lucas , to whom I owe more solid ...
... look little when compared to my favourite friends the Pepyses , whose translations were unquestionably the best . I will insert them , because he did say so . This is the distich given me by Sir Lucas , to whom I owe more solid ...
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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...