The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Volume 21851 |
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... CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT 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 ...
... CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT 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 ...
Pagina 9
... CONVERSATIONS - LETTERS TO BENNET LANGTON - JOHNSON'S CRITICISM ON THE LATIN IN BOSWELL'S THESIS - BOSWELL'S REPLY - PUBLICATION OF MRS . ANNA WILLIAMS'S MISCELLANIES - JOHNSON ADVOCATES THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE IN GAELIC - CUTHBERT ...
... CONVERSATIONS - LETTERS TO BENNET LANGTON - JOHNSON'S CRITICISM ON THE LATIN IN BOSWELL'S THESIS - BOSWELL'S REPLY - PUBLICATION OF MRS . ANNA WILLIAMS'S MISCELLANIES - JOHNSON ADVOCATES THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE IN GAELIC - CUTHBERT ...
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... conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach ...
... conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach ...
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... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell : " But I wonder , Sir , you have not more ...
... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell : " But I wonder , Sir , you have not more ...
Pagina 17
... conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson , are , I think , to be prized , as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of conse- quence required its exertions , and as giving us a minute ...
... conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson , are , I think , to be prized , as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of conse- quence required its exertions , and as giving us a minute ...
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Account of Corsica acquaintance admiration affectionate afraid afterwards answered appeared asked believe BENNET LANGTON bookseller called character church compliments consider conversation DEAR SIR dined Doctor of Medicine Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Garrick gentleman GEORGE STEEVENS give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge king lady Langton laugh learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford pamphlet perhaps pleased pleasure poem published reason remark respect Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Reynolds soon suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale told Tom Davies truth Williams wish wonder write written wrote
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Pagina 258 - Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question.
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Pagina 61 - I think that essay does her honour." JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book.
Pagina 140 - He was then very merry, and talked occasionally of many things with his attendants. Among other things, he said, that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life, he could not be a lawyer, adding his reasons : 'I cannot (saith he,) defend a bad, nor yield in a good cause.
Pagina 111 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Pagina 82 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 258 - ... had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." " Sir," said I, " I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you.
Pagina 113 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.