Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 pagina's |
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Pagina 60
... desired the praise of neatness in her dress and furniture , as many ladies do , till they become trouble- some to their best friends , slaves to their own bosoms , and only sigh for the hour of sweeping their husbands out of the house ...
... desired the praise of neatness in her dress and furniture , as many ladies do , till they become trouble- some to their best friends , slaves to their own bosoms , and only sigh for the hour of sweeping their husbands out of the house ...
Pagina 89
... desired others to adore her , yet being aware perhaps that she was not what the French call pétrie des graces , and thinking , I suppose , that the old maxim , of beginning to laugh at yourself first where you have anything ridiculous ...
... desired others to adore her , yet being aware perhaps that she was not what the French call pétrie des graces , and thinking , I suppose , that the old maxim , of beginning to laugh at yourself first where you have anything ridiculous ...
Pagina 156
... desired Mr. Strahan to say the Lord's Prayer , which he did , all of us joining . Johnson , after it , uttered extempore a few pious ejaculations . 9th . I saw him in the evening , and found him dictating to Mr. Strahan a codicil to the ...
... desired Mr. Strahan to say the Lord's Prayer , which he did , all of us joining . Johnson , after it , uttered extempore a few pious ejaculations . 9th . I saw him in the evening , and found him dictating to Mr. Strahan a codicil to the ...
Pagina 157
... desired Mr. Langton to put into my hands money to the amount of upwards of 100l . , with a direction to keep it till called for . 10th . This day at noon I saw him again . He said to me , that the male nurse to whose care I had ...
... desired Mr. Langton to put into my hands money to the amount of upwards of 100l . , with a direction to keep it till called for . 10th . This day at noon I saw him again . He said to me , that the male nurse to whose care I had ...
Pagina 163
... desired to be called from bed , when a visitor was at the door ) , the tea - table was sure to be spread . “ TE veniente die , TE decedente . " With tea he cheered himself in the morning ; with tea he solaced himself in the evening ...
... desired to be called from bed , when a visitor was at the door ) , the tea - table was sure to be spread . “ TE veniente die , TE decedente . " With tea he cheered himself in the morning ; with tea he solaced himself in the evening ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 468 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 391 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Pagina 441 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pagina 376 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pagina 468 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Pagina 392 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Pagina 387 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Pagina 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Pagina 26 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pagina 394 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable...