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Pagina xvii
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a ...
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a ...
Pagina xix
... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
Pagina xxi
... attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and ...
... attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and ...
Pagina xxv
... attention from the author's lively stream of narrative , or his interesting record of the " logic , and the wisdom , and the wit " ( not omitting the weaknesses and the pecu- liarities ) of Johnson and his eminent contemporaries . - ED ...
... attention from the author's lively stream of narrative , or his interesting record of the " logic , and the wisdom , and the wit " ( not omitting the weaknesses and the pecu- liarities ) of Johnson and his eminent contemporaries . - ED ...
Pagina 36
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1852 |
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Pagina 271 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 255 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From Scotland," cried Davies roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Pagina 304 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Pagina 258 - I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.
Pagina 155 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 95 - Has Heaven reserv'd, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more.
Pagina 290 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Pagina 256 - He then addressed himself to Davies; " What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams, because he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings.
Pagina 225 - CANDIDE, written- to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's RASSELAS; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Pagina 161 - April 26. 1752, being after 12 at Night of the 25th. " O Lord ! Governor of heaven and earth, in whose hands are embodied and departed spirits, if thou hast ordained the souls of the dead to minister to the living, and appointed my departed wife to have care of me, grant that I may enjoy the good effects of her attention and ministration, whether exercised by appearance, impulses, dreams, or in any other manner agreeable to thy government. Forgive my presumption, enlighten my ignorance, and however...