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... repeated with an air of triumph the famous epigram written by Dr. Trapp , " Our royal master saw , with heedful eyes , The wants of his two universities : Troops he to Oxford sent , as knowing why That learned body wanted loyalty : But ...
... repeated with an air of triumph the famous epigram written by Dr. Trapp , " Our royal master saw , with heedful eyes , The wants of his two universities : Troops he to Oxford sent , as knowing why That learned body wanted loyalty : But ...
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... repeated acts of beneficence ; as that conversation is the best which consists in elegant and pleasing thoughts , expressed in natural and pleasing terms . " With regard to my own notions of moral virtue , " continued he , " I hope I ...
... repeated acts of beneficence ; as that conversation is the best which consists in elegant and pleasing thoughts , expressed in natural and pleasing terms . " With regard to my own notions of moral virtue , " continued he , " I hope I ...
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... repeated impression , his favourite hypothesis ; and the general tenor of his reasonings commonly ended there , wherever they might begin . Such things , there- fore , as other philosophers often attribute to various and contradictory ...
... repeated impression , his favourite hypothesis ; and the general tenor of his reasonings commonly ended there , wherever they might begin . Such things , there- fore , as other philosophers often attribute to various and contradictory ...
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... repeated in so many books and pam- phlets , that ' t is perhaps scarcely worth while to write down the conversation between him and a friend of that nation who always resides in London , and who at his return from the Hebrides asked him ...
... repeated in so many books and pam- phlets , that ' t is perhaps scarcely worth while to write down the conversation between him and a friend of that nation who always resides in London , and who at his return from the Hebrides asked him ...
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... repeated he , when he told the story , " what a figure a man makes who thus unaccount- ably chooses to be the frigid narrator of his own disgrace . Il volto sciolto , ed i pensieri stretti , was a proverb made on purpose for such ...
... repeated he , when he told the story , " what a figure a man makes who thus unaccount- ably chooses to be the frigid narrator of his own disgrace . Il volto sciolto , ed i pensieri stretti , was a proverb made on purpose for such ...
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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...