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... sir , you will surely make allowance for the duty of hospitality . A gentleman who loves drinking comes to visit me ... dear Sir Joshua , you shall not be treated so , I will take a bottle with you . ' The celebrated Mrs. Rudd being ...
... sir , you will surely make allowance for the duty of hospitality . A gentleman who loves drinking comes to visit me ... dear Sir Joshua , you shall not be treated so , I will take a bottle with you . ' The celebrated Mrs. Rudd being ...
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds's . You know , my dear sir , no man has a greater respect and affection for you , or would sooner go to the end of the world to serve you . Now , to treat me so He insisted that I had interrupted him , which I ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds's . You know , my dear sir , no man has a greater respect and affection for you , or would sooner go to the end of the world to serve you . Now , to treat me so He insisted that I had interrupted him , which I ...
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... dear sir , I had no such intention as you seem to suspect : I had not , indeed . Might not this nobleman have felt everything " weary , stale , flat , and unprofitable , " as Hamlet says ? ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , if you are to bring in ...
... dear sir , I had no such intention as you seem to suspect : I had not , indeed . Might not this nobleman have felt everything " weary , stale , flat , and unprofitable , " as Hamlet says ? ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , if you are to bring in ...
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... DEAR SIR , - TO DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON · ' Edinburgh , June 18 , 1778 ' Since my return to Scotland I have been again at Lanark , and have had more conversation with Thomson's sister . It is strange that Murdoch , who was his intimate ...
... DEAR SIR , - TO DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON · ' Edinburgh , June 18 , 1778 ' Since my return to Scotland I have been again at Lanark , and have had more conversation with Thomson's sister . It is strange that Murdoch , who was his intimate ...
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James Boswell Augustine Birrell. ' I send another parcel of Lord Hailes ' Annals , which you will please to return to me ... dear sir , your faithful and affectionate humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . ' Mr. Langton has been pleased , at my ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. ' I send another parcel of Lord Hailes ' Annals , which you will please to return to me ... dear sir , your faithful and affectionate humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . ' Mr. Langton has been pleased , at my ...
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Página 225 - 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...
Página 101 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Página 221 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 260 - Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefined.
Página 74 - I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me.
Página 178 - ... 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? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Página 176 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Página 232 - Stillingfleet,1 whose dress was remarkably grave, and in particular it was observed, that he wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss, that it used to be said, "We can do nothing without the blue stockings;" and thus by degrees the title was established.
Página 183 - With such faculties and such dispositions, he excelled every other writer in poetical prudence: he wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few hazards.
Página 174 - ... round. This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion : but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their wickedness. But of evil tongues for Milton to complain, required impudence at least equal to his other powers ; Milton, whose warmest advocates must allow that he never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence.