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Pagina 6
... compliment you as myself . It may do me sɔme honour to inform the public , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character ...
... compliment you as myself . It may do me sɔme honour to inform the public , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character ...
Pagina 13
... compliment très gracieux à une certaine grande dame ; " meaning a Duchess of the first rank . ' I expressed a doubt whether Goldsmith intended it , in order that I might hear the truth from himself . It , per- haps , was not quite fair ...
... compliment très gracieux à une certaine grande dame ; " meaning a Duchess of the first rank . ' I expressed a doubt whether Goldsmith intended it , in order that I might hear the truth from himself . It , per- haps , was not quite fair ...
Pagina 22
... compliment to the Queen , which he introduced into the play of " The Chances , " which he had altered and revised this year , was mean and gross flattery ; -JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , I would not write , I would not give solemnly under my ...
... compliment to the Queen , which he introduced into the play of " The Chances , " which he had altered and revised this year , was mean and gross flattery ; -JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , I would not write , I would not give solemnly under my ...
Pagina 49
... compliments to your lady . " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . JOHNSON sends his compliments to Mr. Boswell , being just arrived at Boyd's . " Saturday night . " His stay in Scotland was from the 18th of August , on which day he ...
... compliments to your lady . " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . JOHNSON sends his compliments to Mr. Boswell , being just arrived at Boyd's . " Saturday night . " His stay in Scotland was from the 18th of August , on which day he ...
Pagina 51
... compliments to all those to whom my compliments may be welcome . " Let the box be sent as soon as it can , and let me know when to expect it . " Inquire , if you can , the order of the Clans : Macdonald is first , Maclean is second ...
... compliments to all those to whom my compliments may be welcome . " Let the box be sent as soon as it can , and let me know when to expect it . " Inquire , if you can , the order of the Clans : Macdonald is first , Maclean is second ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1807 |
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acquaintance admiration affectionate afterwards appear Ashbourne Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe booksellers BOSWELL TO DR character Church compliments consider conversation Court of Session Croker DEAR SIR dined dinner Doctor of Medicine Dodd doubt Edinburgh eminent England English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John journey judge King lady Langton language learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Hailes's Lord Monboddo Madam manner mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet reason recollect remark Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale told truth Whig Wilkes Williams wish wonderful write written wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pagina 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Pagina 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Pagina 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Pagina 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Pagina 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Pagina 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.