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Pagina 22
... letters of recommendation , which were kindly granted , as will be seen by the following extract of a letter , dated Feb. 5. 1777 , from Bennet Langton to Mr. Parr : " Yesterday morning Mr. Paradise and I went to Bolt Court ; and it is ...
... letters of recommendation , which were kindly granted , as will be seen by the following extract of a letter , dated Feb. 5. 1777 , from Bennet Langton to Mr. Parr : " Yesterday morning Mr. Paradise and I went to Bolt Court ; and it is ...
Pagina 44
... letter of the word under which it was to occur . He then delivered these books to his clerks , who transcribed each sentence on a separate slip of paper , and arranged the same under the word referred to . By these means he collected ...
... letter of the word under which it was to occur . He then delivered these books to his clerks , who transcribed each sentence on a separate slip of paper , and arranged the same under the word referred to . By these means he collected ...
Pagina 49
... letters of Lady Wortley Montagu , on which they had bestowed great praise . The Doctor said , “ Why , Madam , there might be great charms to them in being intrusted with honourable letters ; but those who know better of the world ...
... letters of Lady Wortley Montagu , on which they had bestowed great praise . The Doctor said , “ Why , Madam , there might be great charms to them in being intrusted with honourable letters ; but those who know better of the world ...
Pagina 114
... letter from a friend of mine in Ireland : " Johnson's Characters of some Poets breathe such inconsistency , such absurdity , and such want of taste and feeling , that it is the opinion of the Count of Nar- bonne ( 2 ) , Sir N. Barry ...
... letter from a friend of mine in Ireland : " Johnson's Characters of some Poets breathe such inconsistency , such absurdity , and such want of taste and feeling , that it is the opinion of the Count of Nar- bonne ( 2 ) , Sir N. Barry ...
Pagina 122
... letter he wrote me I desired him to call at Mr. Pitt's , and took care to be with him when he was in- troduced . Mr. Pitt was then in the Duke of Grafton's house in Great Bond Street . Boswell came in the Corsican dress and presented a ...
... letter he wrote me I desired him to call at Mr. Pitt's , and took care to be with him when he was in- troduced . Mr. Pitt was then in the Duke of Grafton's house in Great Bond Street . Boswell came in the Corsican dress and presented a ...
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Pagina 88 - 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 145 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pagina 92 - 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...
Pagina 69 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Pagina 171 - 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 75 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Pagina 62 - He said, that the Parliamentary Debates were the only part of his writings which then gave him any compunction: but that at the time he wrote them, he had no conception he was imposing upon the world...
Pagina 170 - ... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pagina 77 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Pagina 90 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is?