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Pagina vii
... PERSONS ; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL ...
... PERSONS ; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL ...
Pagina xvi
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inex- cusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
Pagina xvii
... 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 long and ...
... 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 long and ...
Pagina xviii
... persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgment , instead of seeing that I was sensible of all that they ...
... persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgment , instead of seeing that I was sensible of all that they ...
Pagina xix
... persons in all quarters to supply me with additional information concerning its illustrious subject ; resembling in this the grateful tribes of ancient nations , of which every individual was eager to throw a stone upon the grave of a ...
... persons in all quarters to supply me with additional information concerning its illustrious subject ; resembling in this the grateful tribes of ancient nations , of which every individual was eager to throw a stone upon the grave of a ...
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Populaire passages
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...