Life of Johnson, Volum 2H. Frowde, 1904 |
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Pàgina 28
... Langton , Mr. Nairne , now one of the Scotch Judges , with the title of Lord Dunsinan , and my very worthy friend , Sir William Forbes , of Pitsligo . We discussed the question whether drinking improved conversation and benevolence ...
... Langton , Mr. Nairne , now one of the Scotch Judges , with the title of Lord Dunsinan , and my very worthy friend , Sir William Forbes , of Pitsligo . We discussed the question whether drinking improved conversation and benevolence ...
Pàgina 60
... Langton , who was one of the company at Sir Joshua's , like a sturdy scholar , resolutely refused to sign the Round Robin . The Epitaph is engraved upon Dr. Goldsmith's monument without any alteration . At another time , when somebody ...
... Langton , who was one of the company at Sir Joshua's , like a sturdy scholar , resolutely refused to sign the Round Robin . The Epitaph is engraved upon Dr. Goldsmith's monument without any alteration . At another time , when somebody ...
Pàgina 64
... Langton's lady has brought him a girl , and both are well ; I dined with him the other day .. ... It vexes me to tell you , that on the evening of the 29th of May I was seized by the gout , and am not quite well . The pain has not been ...
... Langton's lady has brought him a girl , and both are well ; I dined with him the other day .. ... It vexes me to tell you , that on the evening of the 29th of May I was seized by the gout , and am not quite well . The pain has not been ...
Pàgina 67
... Langton ? I visit him some- times , but he does not talk . I do not like his scheme of life ; but as I am not permitted to understand it , I cannot set any thing right that is wrong . His children are sweet babies . ' I hope my ...
... Langton ? I visit him some- times , but he does not talk . I do not like his scheme of life ; but as I am not permitted to understand it , I cannot set any thing right that is wrong . His children are sweet babies . ' I hope my ...
Pàgina 75
... Langton lives on as he used to do . His children are very pretty , and , I think , his lady loses her Scotch . Paoli I never see . 1 For a character of this very amiable man , see Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 36 ...
... Langton lives on as he used to do . His children are very pretty , and , I think , his lady loses her Scotch . Paoli I never see . 1 For a character of this very amiable man , see Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 36 ...
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Pàgina 133 - 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.
Pàgina 387 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : 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 412 - Stillingfleet 2 , whose dress was remarkably grave, and in particular it was observed, that he wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss, that it used to be said, ' We can do nothing without the blue stockings;' and thus by degrees the title was established.
Pàgina 541 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Pàgina 25 - Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pàgina 410 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.
Pàgina 643 - Kates, and Jennies, All the names that banish care ; Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show the spirit of an heir. "All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly : There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly.
Pàgina 26 - Then, Sir, what is poetry ? ' JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is ; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Pàgina 437 - And sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Pàgina 404 - 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.