Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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Pagina 9
... conversation turned on the prevailing practice of going to the East Indies in quest of wealth . " A man ( said Johnson ) had better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the ...
... conversation turned on the prevailing practice of going to the East Indies in quest of wealth . " A man ( said Johnson ) had better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the ...
Pagina 11
... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the prac tice of a physician retired to a small town does to his practice in a great city . " To Mr. Boswell ( who was about to leave Lon- don with regret ) ...
... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the prac tice of a physician retired to a small town does to his practice in a great city . " To Mr. Boswell ( who was about to leave Lon- don with regret ) ...
Pagina 33
... conversation , Mr. Boswell men- tioned a kind of religious Robinhood Society , which met every Sunday evening at Coach- maker's Hall for free debate ; and that the sub- ject for that night was the text which relates , with other ...
... conversation , Mr. Boswell men- tioned a kind of religious Robinhood Society , which met every Sunday evening at Coach- maker's Hall for free debate ; and that the sub- ject for that night was the text which relates , with other ...
Pagina 35
... the bed side , and found that he was dead . About two days after his death , the following account was communicated to Mr. Malone , in a letter by the Hon . John Byng : " I HAVE had a long conversation with Cawston , D 2 DEATH . 35.
... the bed side , and found that he was dead . About two days after his death , the following account was communicated to Mr. Malone , in a letter by the Hon . John Byng : " I HAVE had a long conversation with Cawston , D 2 DEATH . 35.
Pagina 36
... conversation with Cawston , who sat up with Dr. Johnson , from nine o'clock on Sunday evening , till ten o'clock on Monday morning . And from what I can gather from him , it should seem , that Dr. Johnson was perfectly composed ; steady ...
... conversation with Cawston , who sat up with Dr. Johnson , from nine o'clock on Sunday evening , till ten o'clock on Monday morning . And from what I can gather from him , it should seem , that Dr. Johnson was perfectly composed ; steady ...
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion perhaps philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote