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Pagina 16
... recollect the original : ' In Corum atque Eurum solitus sævire flagellis Barbarus , Æolio nunquam hoc in carcere passos , Ipsum compedibus qui vinxerat Ennosigæum . ' " Juv . Sat. x . 180 . This does very well , when both the winds and ...
... recollect the original : ' In Corum atque Eurum solitus sævire flagellis Barbarus , Æolio nunquam hoc in carcere passos , Ipsum compedibus qui vinxerat Ennosigæum . ' " Juv . Sat. x . 180 . This does very well , when both the winds and ...
Pagina 42
... recollect his telling me once , on my arrival in London , " Sir , our great friend has made an improvement on his appel- lation of old Mr. Sheridan . He calls him now Sherry derry . " " SIR , LITERARY PROPERTY " TO THE REVEREND MR 42 ...
... recollect his telling me once , on my arrival in London , " Sir , our great friend has made an improvement on his appel- lation of old Mr. Sheridan . He calls him now Sherry derry . " " SIR , LITERARY PROPERTY " TO THE REVEREND MR 42 ...
Pagina 71
... recollected , that this fanciful description of his friend was given by Johnson after he himself had become a water - drinker . B. 2 See them in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . P. 337. B. 8 He now sent me a Latin ...
... recollected , that this fanciful description of his friend was given by Johnson after he himself had become a water - drinker . B. 2 See them in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . P. 337. B. 8 He now sent me a Latin ...
Pagina 81
... recollect with what rancour he was assailed by numbers of shallow , irritable North Britons , on account of his supposed injurious treatment of their country and countrymen , in his " Journey . " Had there been any just ground for such ...
... recollect with what rancour he was assailed by numbers of shallow , irritable North Britons , on account of his supposed injurious treatment of their country and countrymen , in his " Journey . " Had there been any just ground for such ...
Pagina 97
... also an admirable talent of mimicry . He was always jealous that Johnson spoke 1 Robert and James Adam , the celebrated architects . lightly of him . I recollect his exhibiting him to 11 . H AT MRS. ABINGTON'S BENEFIT ...
... also an admirable talent of mimicry . He was always jealous that Johnson spoke 1 Robert and James Adam , the celebrated architects . lightly of him . I recollect his exhibiting him to 11 . H AT MRS. ABINGTON'S BENEFIT ...
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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.