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When we were in the Isle of Sky , Johnson had desired me not to mention his
birthday . He did not seem pleased at this time that I mentioned it , and said (
somewhat sternly ) , “ he would not have the lustre lighted the next day . ” Some
ladies ...
When we were in the Isle of Sky , Johnson had desired me not to mention his
birthday . He did not seem pleased at this time that I mentioned it , and said (
somewhat sternly ) , “ he would not have the lustre lighted the next day . ” Some
ladies ...
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I was very anxious to be secured against any bad consequences from my
imprudence in mentioning the gentleman ' s ... The cowardly caution which gave
you no pleasure , ' was suggested to me by a friend here , to whom I mentioned
the ...
I was very anxious to be secured against any bad consequences from my
imprudence in mentioning the gentleman ' s ... The cowardly caution which gave
you no pleasure , ' was suggested to me by a friend here , to whom I mentioned
the ...
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... Sermon on Lady Cutts ; " where , having mentioned her Diary , he says , “ In
this glass she every day dressed her mind . ” This is a proof of coincidence , and
not of plagiarism ; for I had never read that sermon before . Next morning , while
we ...
... Sermon on Lady Cutts ; " where , having mentioned her Diary , he says , “ In
this glass she every day dressed her mind . ” This is a proof of coincidence , and
not of plagiarism ; for I had never read that sermon before . Next morning , while
we ...
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Goldsmith being mentioned , Johnson observed , that it was long before his merit
came to be acknowledged : that he once complained to him , in ludicrous terms of
distress , “ Whenever I write any thing , the publick make a point to know ...
Goldsmith being mentioned , Johnson observed , that it was long before his merit
came to be acknowledged : that he once complained to him , in ludicrous terms of
distress , “ Whenever I write any thing , the publick make a point to know ...
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... the account of the foregoing conversation , and the subsequent transaction , as
well as of some other conversations in which he is mentioned , has been given to
the publick without previous coinmunication with his lordship . - BOSWELL .
... the account of the foregoing conversation , and the subsequent transaction , as
well as of some other conversations in which he is mentioned , has been given to
the publick without previous coinmunication with his lordship . - BOSWELL .
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Página 400 - Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of...
Página 116 - 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 405 - ... presented, he studied rather than felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
Página 76 - 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 401 - King, was perhaps more than he hoped, seems not to have satisfied him; for no sooner is he safe, than he finds himself in danger, fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compassed round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion: but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust.
Página 462 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 471 - ... 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. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.