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Pagina xxii
... hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , You have made them all talk Johnson ...
... hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , You have made them all talk Johnson ...
Pagina xxiv
... hands , I am not answerable for any typographical errors that may be found in it . Having , however , been printed at the very accurate press of Mr. Baldwin , I make no doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ...
... hands , I am not answerable for any typographical errors that may be found in it . Having , however , been printed at the very accurate press of Mr. Baldwin , I make no doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ...
Pagina 37
... hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . She went up stairs , leaving him to study it ; but by the time she had reached the second floor , she heard him following her . " What's the ...
... hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . She went up stairs , leaving him to study it ; but by the time she had reached the second floor , she heard him following her . " What's the ...
Pagina 43
... hand conversation and wit , besought Lord Chesterfield to carry him over with him as his chaplain when he went ambassador to Holland , he said to him , ' I would certainly take you , if you had one vice more than already have . ' ' My ...
... hand conversation and wit , besought Lord Chesterfield to carry him over with him as his chaplain when he went ambassador to Holland , he said to him , ' I would certainly take you , if you had one vice more than already have . ' ' My ...
Pagina 45
... hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the ...
... hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the ...
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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...