The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A Reprint of the First Edition, to which are Added Mr. Boswell's Corrections and Aditions, Issued in 1792; the Variations of the Second Edition, with Some of the Author's Notes Prepared for the Third, Volum 2S. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1900 |
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... tell his Lordship did not sink into the paper , and might be wiped off with a wet sponge , so that he did not spoil his manuscript . I told him there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in ...
... tell his Lordship did not sink into the paper , and might be wiped off with a wet sponge , so that he did not spoil his manuscript . I told him there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in ...
Pàgina 4
... tell you , my divine , that I yesterday received the holy sacrament in St. Paul's , and was exalted in piety . " He had prepared for this rite by a banquet with Wilkes on the Saturday evening . 3 • Johnson was strictly accurate ...
... tell you , my divine , that I yesterday received the holy sacrament in St. Paul's , and was exalted in piety . " He had prepared for this rite by a banquet with Wilkes on the Saturday evening . 3 • Johnson was strictly accurate ...
Pàgina 8
... tell him , ' Your Lordship's house is on fire ; ' and so , instead of minding the business of his Court , he is to be occupied in getting the engine with the greatest speed . There is no end of this . Every Judge who has land , trades ...
... tell him , ' Your Lordship's house is on fire ; ' and so , instead of minding the business of his Court , he is to be occupied in getting the engine with the greatest speed . There is no end of this . Every Judge who has land , trades ...
Pàgina 20
... tell you , as my divine , that I yester- day received the holy sacrament in St. Paul's church , and was exalted in piety . " -Boswell's Letters , 186 . Richmond early in the day , was obliged to go 20 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... tell you , as my divine , that I yester- day received the holy sacrament in St. Paul's church , and was exalted in piety . " -Boswell's Letters , 186 . Richmond early in the day , was obliged to go 20 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
Pàgina 31
... tell where to beg again . I put into his hands this morning four guineas . If you could collect three guineas more , it would clear him from his present difficulty . I am , Sir , going to Bath . I am to set out on. A learned Greek . Cor ...
... tell where to beg again . I put into his hands this morning four guineas . If you could collect three guineas more , it would clear him from his present difficulty . I am , Sir , going to Bath . I am to set out on. A learned Greek . Cor ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 465 - 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 216 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Pàgina 497 - 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Pàgina 428 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Pàgina 156 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, 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 463 - 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 145 - Pray give me leave, Sir : — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Pàgina 84 - There is no private house (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever [so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every...
Pàgina 224 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pàgina 321 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless...