Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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... known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain , by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately ...
... known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain , by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately ...
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... known , I will not repeat them here . The remembrance of what had passed in his own child- hood , made Mr. Johnson very solicitous to preserve the felicity of children ; and when he had persuaded Dr. Sumner to remit the tasks usually ...
... known , I will not repeat them here . The remembrance of what had passed in his own child- hood , made Mr. Johnson very solicitous to preserve the felicity of children ; and when he had persuaded Dr. Sumner to remit the tasks usually ...
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... known ; and , I trust , has been often recorded : " Why , what would you expect , dear Sir , " said he , " from fellows that eat frogs ? " 20. Greek . I have often thought Dr. Johnson more free than prudent , in professing so loudly his ...
... known ; and , I trust , has been often recorded : " Why , what would you expect , dear Sir , " said he , " from fellows that eat frogs ? " 20. Greek . I have often thought Dr. Johnson more free than prudent , in professing so loudly his ...
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... known author published his poems in the year 1777 , - Such a one's verses are come out , said I. " Yes , " replied Johnson , " and this frost has struck them in again . Here are some lines I have written to ridicule them but remember ...
... known author published his poems in the year 1777 , - Such a one's verses are come out , said I. " Yes , " replied Johnson , " and this frost has struck them in again . Here are some lines I have written to ridicule them but remember ...
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... known , I am sure . " The tender infant , meek and mild , Fell down upon the stone ; The nurse took up the squealing child , But still the child squeal'd on . " A famous ballad , also , beginning " Rio verde , Rio verde , " when I ...
... known , I am sure . " The tender infant , meek and mild , Fell down upon the stone ; The nurse took up the squealing child , But still the child squeal'd on . " A famous ballad , also , beginning " Rio verde , Rio verde , " when I ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbé Raynal acquaintance ALBEMARLE STREET ANECDOTES answer asked better Bishop Percy Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burney called character conversation David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor expressed favour favourite fear Frank Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith hated hear heard heart honour Hoole hope humour James Boswell knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived look Lord Lord Lyttelton loved Lucy Porter Madam manner mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion Parr perhaps person pleased pleasure Poets poor Portrait praise recollect religion remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson says Johnson seemed Seward Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told took truth verses virtue Whig wish words write written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 388 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Página 467 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 439 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 373 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 467 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Página 384 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Página 391 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable.
Página 315 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Página 390 - Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 384 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence ; we cannot be certain...