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 4;Volumes 1780-1784Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... wrote them down in his présence , am partly answerable . ' Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer ; as to the pastoral part , Virgil is very evidently superiour . He wrote when there had been a larger influx of ...
... wrote them down in his présence , am partly answerable . ' Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer ; as to the pastoral part , Virgil is very evidently superiour . He wrote when there had been a larger influx of ...
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... wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a particular admirer of his , The Doctor growled and took no further notice . " He admires in especial your Irene as the finest ...
... wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a particular admirer of his , The Doctor growled and took no further notice . " He admires in especial your Irene as the finest ...
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... wrote that down ; " and went on to say to Dr. Johnson , " Pope , Sir , would have said the same of you , if he had seen you distilling ? " JOHNSON . " Sir , if Pope had told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto ...
... wrote that down ; " and went on to say to Dr. Johnson , " Pope , Sir , would have said the same of you , if he had seen you distilling ? " JOHNSON . " Sir , if Pope had told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto ...
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... wrote the epilogue . Gold- smith's Misc . Works , ii . 8o . Johnson wrote on Oct. 28 , 1779 ( Piozzi Letters , ii . 72 ) : — C— L- accuses **** of making a party against her play . I always hissed away the charge , sup- posing him a man ...
... wrote the epilogue . Gold- smith's Misc . Works , ii . 8o . Johnson wrote on Oct. 28 , 1779 ( Piozzi Letters , ii . 72 ) : — C— L- accuses **** of making a party against her play . I always hissed away the charge , sup- posing him a man ...
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... wrote of Johnson : - ' The prejudices he had to countries did not extend to individuals . In respect to Frenchmen he rather laughed at himself , but it was insurmountable . He considered every foreigner as a fool till they had convinced ...
... wrote of Johnson : - ' The prejudices he had to countries did not extend to individuals . In respect to Frenchmen he rather laughed at himself , but it was insurmountable . He considered every foreigner as a fool till they had convinced ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 400 - 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 139 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Página 46 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Página 45 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Página 43 - The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. "Blank verse," said an ingenious critick, "seems to be verse only to the eye.
Página 315 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Página 221 - But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Página 9 - Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines, ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well;' then asked the doctor, ' Why did Pope say this ?
Página 281 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Página 73 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.