Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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Pagina xiii
... Nature , 120 . Nazianzen , Gregory , Johnson de- scribed by , 329 . Necessity of adapting Knowledge to the Purposes of Life , 383 . Needle - work , 88 . " New Manner of Writing , " 18 . Newspaper Abuse , 59 . New Testament , 284 ...
... Nature , 120 . Nazianzen , Gregory , Johnson de- scribed by , 329 . Necessity of adapting Knowledge to the Purposes of Life , 383 . Needle - work , 88 . " New Manner of Writing , " 18 . Newspaper Abuse , 59 . New Testament , 284 ...
Pagina 12
... nature , smiling art , Venus , courted by an ode , On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right Now Anacreon rules my flight : His the letters that you see , Weighty charge consign'd to me : Think not yet my service hard ...
... nature , smiling art , Venus , courted by an ode , On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right Now Anacreon rules my flight : His the letters that you see , Weighty charge consign'd to me : Think not yet my service hard ...
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... nature made a pause ; An awful pause prophetic of its end . " - This , " said he , " is true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road . Young froths ...
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause prophetic of its end . " - This , " said he , " is true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road . Young froths ...
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... nature that is gelide and timide . " In fact , he lived but few months after , I believe , and retained his faculties a still shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and pro- found learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of ...
... nature that is gelide and timide . " In fact , he lived but few months after , I believe , and retained his faculties a still shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and pro- found learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of ...
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... natural tenderness of your heart , that for aught I know you may be a little sorry ; but it is sufficient for a plain man if he does not laugh when he sees a fine new house tumble down all on a sudden , and a snug cottage stand by ready ...
... natural tenderness of your heart , that for aught I know you may be a little sorry ; but it is sufficient for a plain man if he does not laugh when he sees a fine new house tumble down all on a sudden , and a snug cottage stand by ready ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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...