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... thing are wonderful . Talking of shaving the other night at Dr. Taylor's , Dr. Johnson said , " Sir , of a thousand shavers , two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished . " I thought this not possible , till he specified ...
... thing are wonderful . Talking of shaving the other night at Dr. Taylor's , Dr. Johnson said , " Sir , of a thousand shavers , two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished . " I thought this not possible , till he specified ...
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... thing known to be his , you answered , Why should you think so ? Depend upon it , sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight , it concentrates his mind wonderfully . ' " JOHNSON . " Sir , as Dodd got it from me to pass as ...
... thing known to be his , you answered , Why should you think so ? Depend upon it , sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight , it concentrates his mind wonderfully . ' " JOHNSON . " Sir , as Dodd got it from me to pass as ...
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... thing that seemed to be exhibited with disproportionate importance , thus observed : " I suppose , sir , there is no more in it than this ; he wakes at four , and cannot sleep till he chills himself , and makes the warmth of the bed a ...
... thing that seemed to be exhibited with disproportionate importance , thus observed : " I suppose , sir , there is no more in it than this ; he wakes at four , and cannot sleep till he chills himself , and makes the warmth of the bed a ...
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... things ; he repeats and he sings : there is both recitation and musick in his perform- ance : the player only ... thing : but he who can represent ex- alted characters , and touch the noblest passions , has very respectable powers ...
... things ; he repeats and he sings : there is both recitation and musick in his perform- ance : the player only ... thing : but he who can represent ex- alted characters , and touch the noblest passions , has very respectable powers ...
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... thing like swearing , angrily re- plied , " He was not a damned fool : he only thought too well of Campbell . He did not believe Campbell would be such a damned scoundrel , as to do so damned a thing . " His emphasis on damned , accom ...
... thing like swearing , angrily re- plied , " He was not a damned fool : he only thought too well of Campbell . He did not believe Campbell would be such a damned scoundrel , as to do so damned a thing . " His emphasis on damned , accom ...
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Pàgina 382 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Pàgina 14 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Pàgina 381 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Pàgina 316 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Pàgina 15 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Pàgina 369 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Pàgina 373 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Pàgina 351 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Pàgina 262 - As I went by, the Protestants were plundering the Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred ; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day.
Pàgina 121 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.