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Pagina xx
... received from Dr. Johnson the full story of his Oxford career . Would not his first question have been : " And how long , sir , did you remain at Oxford ? " Against this are put certain blanks in the Buttery books . Again , there is an ...
... received from Dr. Johnson the full story of his Oxford career . Would not his first question have been : " And how long , sir , did you remain at Oxford ? " Against this are put certain blanks in the Buttery books . Again , there is an ...
Pagina xxvi
... received your foolish and impudent letter . Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself , the law shall do for me . I hope I never shall be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat , by the ...
... received your foolish and impudent letter . Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself , the law shall do for me . I hope I never shall be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat , by the ...
Pagina xxxv
... received and inserted in an introduction and appendix . The index was enlarged . The numerous improvements were printed separately in quarto form ( 42 pp . ) and sold at half - a - crown , under the title of The Principal Corrections ...
... received and inserted in an introduction and appendix . The index was enlarged . The numerous improvements were printed separately in quarto form ( 42 pp . ) and sold at half - a - crown , under the title of The Principal Corrections ...
Pagina xlii
... It is remarkable that Boswell's " Life " has never received the honour of a translation into a foreign language . London , 1888 . THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT xlii THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOSWELL'S “ LIFE . ”
... It is remarkable that Boswell's " Life " has never received the honour of a translation into a foreign language . London , 1888 . THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT xlii THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOSWELL'S “ LIFE . ”
Pagina xlvi
... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to wel- come me for the number of ...
... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to wel- come me for the number of ...
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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...