The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volume 21831 |
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Pagina 18
... common way of living , at his table , was three or four dishes ; the appurtenances to his table were neat and handsome ; he frequently entertained company at dinner , and then his table was well served with as many dishes as were usual ...
... common way of living , at his table , was three or four dishes ; the appurtenances to his table were neat and handsome ; he frequently entertained company at dinner , and then his table was well served with as many dishes as were usual ...
Pagina 28
... common purposes , till it is re- posited in some version of a known book , that it may be always hereafter examined and compared with other languages , and then permitting its disuse . For this purpose , the translation of the Bible is ...
... common purposes , till it is re- posited in some version of a known book , that it may be always hereafter examined and compared with other languages , and then permitting its disuse . For this purpose , the translation of the Bible is ...
Pagina 36
... [ Johnson himself imitated it to Paoli ( see post , 10th October , 1769 ) ; and it is indeed become one of the common - places of compliment . - ED . ] His majesty having observed to him that he sup- posed 36 1767. - ETAT . 58 .
... [ Johnson himself imitated it to Paoli ( see post , 10th October , 1769 ) ; and it is indeed become one of the common - places of compliment . - ED . ] His majesty having observed to him that he sup- posed 36 1767. - ETAT . 58 .
Pagina 48
... one opinion when you are in reality of another opinion , does not such dissimulation impair one's honesty ? Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask in common life , in the intercourse with his 48 1768. - ÆTAT . 59 .
... one opinion when you are in reality of another opinion , does not such dissimulation impair one's honesty ? Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask in common life , in the intercourse with his 48 1768. - ÆTAT . 59 .
Pagina 49
... common intercourse of society , than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet ' . " 299 Talking of some of the modern plays , he said , " False Delicacy was ...
... common intercourse of society , than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet ' . " 299 Talking of some of the modern plays , he said , " False Delicacy was ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 126 - 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 257 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Pagina 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Pagina 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Pagina 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Pagina 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Pagina 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Pagina 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Pagina 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Pagina 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.