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... admirable discussions than I should be able to draw from his personal conversation ; for I suppose there is not a man in the world to whom he discloses his senti- ments so freely as to yourself . " I cannot omit a curious circumstance ...
... admirable discussions than I should be able to draw from his personal conversation ; for I suppose there is not a man in the world to whom he discloses his senti- ments so freely as to yourself . " I cannot omit a curious circumstance ...
Pàgina 43
... admirable advice how to travel to the best advantage , and will therefore be of very general use , is another eminent proof of Johnson's warm and affectionate heart . ( 1 ) LETTER 313. TO MRS . LUCY PORTER . -- " Feb. 19. 1778 . “ DEAR ...
... admirable advice how to travel to the best advantage , and will therefore be of very general use , is another eminent proof of Johnson's warm and affectionate heart . ( 1 ) LETTER 313. TO MRS . LUCY PORTER . -- " Feb. 19. 1778 . “ DEAR ...
Pàgina 64
... admirable talents as a political writer , thus describes the house of commons in his Letter to Sir William Wyndham ; ' - - " You know the nature of that assembly : they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by ...
... admirable talents as a political writer , thus describes the house of commons in his Letter to Sir William Wyndham ; ' - - " You know the nature of that assembly : they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who shows them game , and by ...
Pàgina 72
... smiled , and repeated with admirable readiness , from " Acis and Galatea , " " Bring me a hundred reeds of ample growth , To make a pipe for my capacious mouth . " a freeman of Aberdeen , I should be a knitter 72 1778 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... smiled , and repeated with admirable readiness , from " Acis and Galatea , " " Bring me a hundred reeds of ample growth , To make a pipe for my capacious mouth . " a freeman of Aberdeen , I should be a knitter 72 1778 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... admirable ; and though he was strangely unwill- ing to allow to that extraordinary man the talent of wit ( 3 ) , he also laughed with approbation at another of his playful conceits ; which was , that " Horace has in one line given a ...
... admirable ; and though he was strangely unwill- ing to allow to that extraordinary man the talent of wit ( 3 ) , he also laughed with approbation at another of his playful conceits ; which was , that " Horace has in one line given a ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volum 7 James Boswell Visualització completa - 1848 |
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Pàgina 253 - 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 24 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in 'their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to ' " shut the...
Pàgina 125 - I could write a better book of cookery than has ever yet been written; it should be a book upon philosophical principles. Pharmacy is now made much more simple. Cookery may be made so too. A prescription which is now compounded of five ingredients, had formerly fifty in it. So in cookery, if the nature of the ingredients be well known, much fewer will do.
Pàgina 361 - Having spent an evening at Mr. Langton's with the Reverend Dr. Parr, he was much pleased with the conversation of that learned gentleman ; and after he was gone, said to Mr. Langton, ' 'Sir, I am obliged to you for having asked me this evening. Parr is a fair man. I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free controversy. It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this kind of open discussion.
Pàgina 124 - Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the Late Revolution in Sweden," and seemed to read it ravenously, as if he devoured it, which was to all appearance his method of studying. "He knows how to read better than any one (said Mrs, Knowles) ; he gets at the substance of a book directly ; he tears out the heart of it.
Pàgina 17 - Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide ; Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep ; Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble waste survey. observing,
Pàgina 102 - They are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat — with the grossest sensuality. But, Sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is so general a weakness.
Pàgina 99 - Sir: celebrated men, such as you have mentioned, have had their applause at a distance; but Garrick had it dashed in his face, sounded in his ears, and went home every night with the plaudits of a thousand in his cranium. Then, Sir, Garrick did not find, but made his way to the tables, the levees, and almost the bed-chambers of the great. Then, Sir, Garrick had under him a numerous body of people ; who, from fear of his power, and hopes of his favour, and admiration of his talents, were constantly...
Pàgina 376 - Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Pàgina 46 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...