The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Zväzok 81835 |
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Strana 48
... tell it . " " I think , " said Mr. Dudley Long ( 1 ) , now North , " the Doctor has pretty plainly made him out to be both rogue and fool . " Johnson's profound reverence for the hierarchy made him expect from bishops the highest degree ...
... tell it . " " I think , " said Mr. Dudley Long ( 1 ) , now North , " the Doctor has pretty plainly made him out to be both rogue and fool . " Johnson's profound reverence for the hierarchy made him expect from bishops the highest degree ...
Strana 62
... tell you that you have five hundred pounds for your immediate expenses , and two thousand pounds a year , with both the houses , and all the goods ? " Let us pray for one another , that the time , whether long or short , that shall yet ...
... tell you that you have five hundred pounds for your immediate expenses , and two thousand pounds a year , with both the houses , and all the goods ? " Let us pray for one another , that the time , whether long or short , that shall yet ...
Strana 83
... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
Strana 106
... Tell him , if he'll call on me , and dawdle over a dish of tea in an afternoon , I shall take it kind . " The Reverend Mr. Smith , vicar of Southill , a very respectable man , with a very agreeable family , sent an invitation to us to ...
... Tell him , if he'll call on me , and dawdle over a dish of tea in an afternoon , I shall take it kind . " The Reverend Mr. Smith , vicar of Southill , a very respectable man , with a very agreeable family , sent an invitation to us to ...
Strana 114
... tell you , who consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough acquainted to have many images in common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the ...
... tell you , who consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough acquainted to have many images in common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the ...
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acquaintance admirable afterwards answered antè appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop Brocklesby Burke Burney called character church club consider conversation curious DEAR SIR death desire died dined dropsy eminent entertained expressed favour Francis Barber gentleman give glad happy Hebrides honour Hoole hope JAMES BOSWELL Johnson kind lady Langton learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Thurlow lordship LUCY PORTER Lusiad Madam manner mentioned merit mind Miss never obliged observed occasion once opinion perhaps person physicians pleased pleasure poet pounds praise prayers pretty woman published recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told verses Whig Wilkes William wish wonder write written wrote young
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Strana 394 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Strana 81 - ... retorting 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...
Strana 120 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine. As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See LEVETT to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Strana 44 - 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...
Strana 270 - Here was exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's Comedies : ' There is no arguing with Johnson ; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it...
Strana 67 - 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.
Strana 383 - Chambers, or of myself, gave the account which I now transmit to you in his own hand ; being willing that of so great a work the history should be known, and that each writer should receive his due proportion of praise from posterity. I recommend to you to preserve this scrap of literary intelligence in Mr. Swinton's own hand, or to deposit it in the Museum, that the veracity of this account may never be doubted. I am, Sir, Your most humble servant, Dec. 6, 1784. SAM : JOHNSON.
Strana 84 - I am sure (said she) they have affected me" — " Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about,) that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness ; " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Strana 279 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Strana 72 - ... and myself. We found ourselves very elegantly entertained at her house in the Adelphi, where I have passed many a pleasing hour with him