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Pagina xxi
... doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has ... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been col- lected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he ...
... doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has ... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been col- lected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he ...
Pagina xxiv
... doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ; the greatest care having been taken , by correctness and elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English language . EDM ...
... doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ; the greatest care having been taken , by correctness and elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English language . EDM ...
Pagina 36
... doubt ; for there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay ...
... doubt ; for there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay ...
Pagina 38
... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me that his father made the verses ...
... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me that his father made the verses ...
Pagina 60
... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his " Meditations , " and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his " Meditations , " and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
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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...