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Pagina x
... Warton's , seventeen lines long , on Z. Williams , is omitted ; Mr. Croker re - writes it , compressing it into three lines , and signing it " WARTON . " P. 501 , a whole note is given to Malone , of which a portion is Mr. Boswell's ...
... Warton's , seventeen lines long , on Z. Williams , is omitted ; Mr. Croker re - writes it , compressing it into three lines , and signing it " WARTON . " P. 501 , a whole note is given to Malone , of which a portion is Mr. Boswell's ...
Pagina xi
... Warton's on one of his own letters : " He came to Oxford within a fortnight , and stayed about five weeks . He lodged at a house called Kettel Hall near Trinity College . But during this visit at Oxford , he collected nothing in the ...
... Warton's on one of his own letters : " He came to Oxford within a fortnight , and stayed about five weeks . He lodged at a house called Kettel Hall near Trinity College . But during this visit at Oxford , he collected nothing in the ...
Pagina xxix
... Warton's account of Johnson at Oxford : " I once had been a whole morning sliding [ skating ] in Christchurch meadow , " & c . , the meaning of which is that Boswell had left both words until he could ascertain from Mr. Warton which was ...
... Warton's account of Johnson at Oxford : " I once had been a whole morning sliding [ skating ] in Christchurch meadow , " & c . , the meaning of which is that Boswell had left both words until he could ascertain from Mr. Warton which was ...
Pagina li
... Warton , and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excel- lent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estim- able ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the ...
... Warton , and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excel- lent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estim- able ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the ...
Pagina 29
... Warton , however , pronounced it full of " hard and un- classical " terms , and declared that it had been " praised and magnified beyond its merits . " Johnson adventured boldly to transfuse His vigorous sense into the THE LIFE OF DR ...
... Warton , however , pronounced it full of " hard and un- classical " terms , and declared that it had been " praised and magnified beyond its merits . " Johnson adventured boldly to transfuse His vigorous sense into the THE LIFE OF DR ...
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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...