Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 3;Volumes 1776-1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of attention should be shewn by great men to their early friends . But if either from obtuse insensibility to difference of situation , or presumptuous forwardness , which will not submit even ...
... doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of attention should be shewn by great men to their early friends . But if either from obtuse insensibility to difference of situation , or presumptuous forwardness , which will not submit even ...
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... doubt be made for early prepossession . But at a maturer period of life , after looking at various metrical versions of the Psalms , I am well satisfied that the version used in Scotland is , upon the whole , the best ; and that it is ...
... doubt be made for early prepossession . But at a maturer period of life , after looking at various metrical versions of the Psalms , I am well satisfied that the version used in Scotland is , upon the whole , the best ; and that it is ...
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... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that ' their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not ...
... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that ' their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not ...
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... doubt contributed much to his comfort and enjoyment , was not without some degree of restraint not , as has been grossly suggested , that it was required of him as a task to talk for the entertainment of them and their company ; but ...
... doubt contributed much to his comfort and enjoyment , was not without some degree of restraint not , as has been grossly suggested , that it was required of him as a task to talk for the entertainment of them and their company ; but ...
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... doubt we should pity the state of his mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir ; every man will dispute with great good humour upon a ...
... doubt we should pity the state of his mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir ; every man will dispute with great good humour upon a ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1780 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1891 |
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Página 453 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 296 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 453 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 381 - 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 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Página 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 85 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 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.
Página 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 268 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Página 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?