Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volum 3;Volums 1776-1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... drinking " . We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney coach , to Mr. I 1 See ante , ii . 75 . 2 Ante , April 10 , 1775 . 3 See ante , March 21 , 1776 , and post , Sept. 19 ...
... drinking " . We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney coach , to Mr. I 1 See ante , ii . 75 . 2 Ante , April 10 , 1775 . 3 See ante , March 21 , 1776 , and post , Sept. 19 ...
Pàgina 27
... drinking . " Wesley's Journal , i . 347 . Young , in his Epistles to Pope , No. ii . says : - three ells round huge Cheyne rails at meat . ' Dr. J. H. Burton ( Life of Hume , i . 45 ) shews reason for believing that a very curious ...
... drinking . " Wesley's Journal , i . 347 . Young , in his Epistles to Pope , No. ii . says : - three ells round huge Cheyne rails at meat . ' Dr. J. H. Burton ( Life of Hume , i . 45 ) shews reason for believing that a very curious ...
Pàgina 41
... drinking improved con- versation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON . No , Sir : before dinner men meet with great in- equality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority , have the modesty ...
... drinking improved con- versation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON . No , Sir : before dinner men meet with great in- equality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority , have the modesty ...
Pàgina 42
... drinking . JOHNSON . Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company ' . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
... drinking . JOHNSON . Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company ' . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
Pàgina 45
... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath ... drink the waters for indigestion . ' The town waits are also mentioned . The season was not far from its close when ...
... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath ... drink the waters for indigestion . ' The town waits are also mentioned . The season was not far from its close when ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to ..., Volum 3 James Boswell Visualització completa - 1780 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 453 - That 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 ruins of lona.
Pàgina 296 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Pàgina 453 - 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.
Pàgina 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Pàgina 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Pàgina 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Pàgina 85 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Pàgina 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Pàgina 268 - 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.
Pàgina 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?