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... lady of lively talents , improved by education . That John- son's introduction into Mr. Thrale's family , which contributed so much to the happiness of his life , was owing to her desire for his conversation is a very probable and the ...
... lady of lively talents , improved by education . That John- son's introduction into Mr. Thrale's family , which contributed so much to the happiness of his life , was owing to her desire for his conversation is a very probable and the ...
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... lady well acquainted with Mrs. Williams : " As to her poems , she many years attempted to publish them : the half - crowns she had got towards the publication , she confessed to me , went for necessaries , and that the greatest pain she ...
... lady well acquainted with Mrs. Williams : " As to her poems , she many years attempted to publish them : the half - crowns she had got towards the publication , she confessed to me , went for necessaries , and that the greatest pain she ...
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... obeys : for Time shall first expire , Ere Johnson stay , when Virtue bids retire . " * See an account of him in the European Magazine , Jan. 1786 . The Honourable Thomas Hervey and his lady having unhappily disagreed 44 1767 . THE LIFE OF.
... obeys : for Time shall first expire , Ere Johnson stay , when Virtue bids retire . " * See an account of him in the European Magazine , Jan. 1786 . The Honourable Thomas Hervey and his lady having unhappily disagreed 44 1767 . THE LIFE OF.
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James Boswell. The Honourable Thomas Hervey and his lady having unhappily disagreed , and being about to separate , Johnson interfered as their friend , and wrote him a letter of expostulation , which I have not been able to find ; but ...
James Boswell. The Honourable Thomas Hervey and his lady having unhappily disagreed , and being about to separate , Johnson interfered as their friend , and wrote him a letter of expostulation , which I have not been able to find ; but ...
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... lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . 7 [ In his letter to Mr. Drummond , dated Oct. 24 , 1767 , he men- tions that he had arrived in London , after an absence of nearly six months , in the country . Probably part of that time was ...
... lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . 7 [ In his letter to Mr. Drummond , dated Oct. 24 , 1767 , he men- tions that he had arrived in London , after an absence of nearly six months , in the country . Probably part of that time was ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admiration afraid answered appeared asked authour Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON called character church compliments consider conversation Court dined Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge King lady Langton laugh learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner ment mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem publick racter reason remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth wish wonder write written wrote
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Página 363 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 326 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 190 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.
Página 213 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
Página 123 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Página 173 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Página 323 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," —" When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Página 90 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
Página 260 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
Página 233 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.