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... remark , Johnson loved business , loved to have his wisdom actually operate on real life . Dr. Wetherell and I talked of him without reserve in his own presence . WETHERELL : " I would have given him a hundred guineas if he would have ...
... remark , Johnson loved business , loved to have his wisdom actually operate on real life . Dr. Wetherell and I talked of him without reserve in his own presence . WETHERELL : " I would have given him a hundred guineas if he would have ...
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... remark about him . The chaplain of a late Bishop , whom I was to assist in writing some memoirs of his Lordship , could tell me scarcely anything . " * I said Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written , as he had been so much ...
... remark about him . The chaplain of a late Bishop , whom I was to assist in writing some memoirs of his Lordship , could tell me scarcely anything . " * I said Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written , as he had been so much ...
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... remarks in the text do not now apply to the printed poem . The Bishop gives this character of Dr. Grainger : - " He was not only a man of genius and learning , but had many excellent virtues ; being one of the most generous , friendly ...
... remarks in the text do not now apply to the printed poem . The Bishop gives this character of Dr. Grainger : - " He was not only a man of genius and learning , but had many excellent virtues ; being one of the most generous , friendly ...
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... remarked , " He says there is neither precept nor practice for baptism , in the Scriptures ; that is false . " Here he was the aggressor , by no means in a gentle manner ; and the good Quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read ...
... remarked , " He says there is neither precept nor practice for baptism , in the Scriptures ; that is false . " Here he was the aggressor , by no means in a gentle manner ; and the good Quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read ...
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... remark introduced into Captain Brydone's enter- taining tour , * I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too com- mon in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all sub- jects . Dr. Johnson , indeed ...
... remark introduced into Captain Brydone's enter- taining tour , * I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too com- mon in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all sub- jects . Dr. Johnson , indeed ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acknowl acquaintance admirable afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe Bennet Langton Bishop Brocklesby Burke character Church consider conversation Court of Session David Garrick DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd drink edition English engraving entertained Etat expressed favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kind lady Langton late learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mezzotint mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise published recollect remark respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale told truth verses Whig Wilkes William wine wish write written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 1054 - 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.
Página 583 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 732 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says, 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Página 922 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 940 - 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.
Página 846 - Poor stuff! No Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 948 - ... it being : sometimes it riseth only 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. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
Página 956 - They are more powerful, sir, than we," answered Imlac, "because they are wiser; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Página 750 - Accustom your children," said he, "constantly to this; if a thing -happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.
Página 718 - 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.