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... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a subject like a serpent ? " But , " said I , " Johnson is the Hercules who strangled serpents in his cradle . " 66 I dined with Dr. Johnson at General Paoli's ...
... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a subject like a serpent ? " But , " said I , " Johnson is the Hercules who strangled serpents in his cradle . " 66 I dined with Dr. Johnson at General Paoli's ...
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... wonderful deed : he'll call up the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; 1 Langton . This affair of ...
... wonderful deed : he'll call up the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; 1 Langton . This affair of ...
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... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and presented its author with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - house in Oxford , I called to him , ' Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came you to give a gold medal to Home ...
... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and presented its author with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - house in Oxford , I called to him , ' Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came you to give a gold medal to Home ...
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... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr. Garrick , whom I made happy with Johnson's praise of his pro- logues ; and I suppose , in gratitude to him , he took up one ...
... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr. Garrick , whom I made happy with Johnson's praise of his pro- logues ; and I suppose , in gratitude to him , he took up one ...
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... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however , allowed ...
... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however , allowed ...
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acquaintance admiration affectionate afterwards appear Ashbourne Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe booksellers BOSWELL TO DR character Church compliments consider conversation Court of Session Croker DEAR SIR dined dinner Doctor of Medicine Dodd doubt Edinburgh eminent England English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John journey judge King lady Langton language learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Hailes's Lord Monboddo Madam manner mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet reason recollect remark Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale told truth Whig Wilkes Williams wish wonderful write written wrote
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Página 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 370 - 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.
Página 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Página 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Página 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Página 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Página 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.