The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... Thrale confirms ED . this conjecture . [ " TO MRS . THRALE . " Ashbourne , 18th Sept. 1777 . " Here is another birthday . They come very fast . I am now sixty - eight . To lament the past is vain ; what remains is to look for hope in ...
... Thrale confirms ED . this conjecture . [ " TO MRS . THRALE . " Ashbourne , 18th Sept. 1777 . " Here is another birthday . They come very fast . I am now sixty - eight . To lament the past is vain ; what remains is to look for hope in ...
Pagina 4
... Thrale : " Yes , " replied Johnson , " and this frost has struck them in again . Here are some lines I have written to ridicule them : but remember that I love the fellow dearly , -for all I laugh at him . Wheresoe'er I turn my view ...
... Thrale : " Yes , " replied Johnson , " and this frost has struck them in again . Here are some lines I have written to ridicule them : but remember that I love the fellow dearly , -for all I laugh at him . Wheresoe'er I turn my view ...
Pagina 7
... , et ou je meurs , Tu nous fais voir comment voisins , Sont nos plaisirs , et nos chagrins . " [ The reader will recollect that Mrs. Thrale's name was Hester . - ED . ] 1 When I mentioned Dr. Johnson's remark to a lady 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
... , et ou je meurs , Tu nous fais voir comment voisins , Sont nos plaisirs , et nos chagrins . " [ The reader will recollect that Mrs. Thrale's name was Hester . - ED . ] 1 When I mentioned Dr. Johnson's remark to a lady 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
Pagina 19
... Thrale's nephew and ward ] called to him suddenly , and rather disrespectfully , in these words : Dr. Johnson , would you advise me to marry ? " I would advise no man to marry , sir ( replied in a [ He was the posthumous son of the ...
... Thrale's nephew and ward ] called to him suddenly , and rather disrespectfully , in these words : Dr. Johnson , would you advise me to marry ? " I would advise no man to marry , sir ( replied in a [ He was the posthumous son of the ...
Pagina 38
... Thrale , who has no card - parties at her house , to give sweetmeats , and such good things , in an évening , as are not commonly given , and she would find company enough come to her ; for every body loves to have things which please ...
... Thrale , who has no card - parties at her house , to give sweetmeats , and such good things , in an évening , as are not commonly given , and she would find company enough come to her ; for every body loves to have things which please ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 463 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
Pagina 13 - No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm ; and that I felt all the dulcedo of the natale solum.
Pagina 396 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Pagina 462 - It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear...
Pagina 108 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Pagina 236 - I reminded him how heartily he and I used to drink wine together, when we were first acquainted ; and how I used to have a headache after sitting up with him. He did not like to have this recalled, or, perhaps, thinking that I boasted improperly, resolved to have a witty stroke at ine ; " Nay, sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it.
Pagina 178 - We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us...
Pagina 424 - I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery. What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
Pagina 463 - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.