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Pagina x
... Beauclerk , Esq . , " becomes " Mr. Beauclerk . - BOSWELL . " At p . 113 " Mr. Samuel Richardson , the authour of Clarissa , " is shortened into " the author of ' Clarissa . ' " At p . 155 " soon after this event " is altered into soon ...
... Beauclerk , Esq . , " becomes " Mr. Beauclerk . - BOSWELL . " At p . 113 " Mr. Samuel Richardson , the authour of Clarissa , " is shortened into " the author of ' Clarissa . ' " At p . 155 " soon after this event " is altered into soon ...
Pagina xxxi
... Beauclerk -- the divorced Lady Bolingbroke and wife of his friend . He tells the public that " he had a playful Bett with her , " and then introduces his venerable friend discoursing on her in a way that none of her friends could ...
... Beauclerk -- the divorced Lady Bolingbroke and wife of his friend . He tells the public that " he had a playful Bett with her , " and then introduces his venerable friend discoursing on her in a way that none of her friends could ...
Pagina xxxii
... Beauclerk could not dissipate . ' " So with the account of the lady of his acquaintance who maintained that " conjugal obligations were reciprocal . " strange conversation certainly points to the Honourable Mrs. Stuart , who must have ...
... Beauclerk could not dissipate . ' " So with the account of the lady of his acquaintance who maintained that " conjugal obligations were reciprocal . " strange conversation certainly points to the Honourable Mrs. Stuart , who must have ...
Pagina 52
... Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him , with much gravity , " Sir , it was a love - marriage upon both sides , " I have had from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their journey to church upon ...
... Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him , with much gravity , " Sir , it was a love - marriage upon both sides , " I have had from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their journey to church upon ...
Pagina 147
... Beauclerk : " The Havannah is taken ; -a conquest too dearly obtained ; for , Bathurst died before it . " Vix Priamus tanti totaque Troja fuit . " ' Levet , though an Englishman , had been waiter in a French coffee - house , where his ...
... Beauclerk : " The Havannah is taken ; -a conquest too dearly obtained ; for , Bathurst died before it . " Vix Priamus tanti totaque Troja fuit . " ' Levet , though an Englishman , had been waiter in a French coffee - house , where his ...
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Pagina 256 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Pagina 256 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. 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 241 - That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Pagina 41 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pagina 470 - Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again.
Pagina 411 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Pagina 158 - Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord...
Pagina 275 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pagina 6 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark, that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving z with violent commotion.
Pagina 119 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...