Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 5A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... 1745-1826 , 174 Author of Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century , etc. Engraved portraits , S. K. M .; published 1811 . ' A series of letters to Mr. Nichols the printer . ' SIR BROOKE BOOTHBY , 1743-1824 , One of the Lichfield.
... 1745-1826 , 174 Author of Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century , etc. Engraved portraits , S. K. M .; published 1811 . ' A series of letters to Mr. Nichols the printer . ' SIR BROOKE BOOTHBY , 1743-1824 , One of the Lichfield.
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... letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland , had been in his mind before he left London . JOHNSON : Why yes , sir , the topics were ; and books of travel will be good ...
... letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland , had been in his mind before he left London . JOHNSON : Why yes , sir , the topics were ; and books of travel will be good ...
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... letters to Pope , says , " I intend to come over that we may meet once more ; and when we must part it is what happens to all human beings . BOSWELL : ' The hope that we shall see our departed friends again must support the mind ...
... letters to Pope , says , " I intend to come over that we may meet once more ; and when we must part it is what happens to all human beings . BOSWELL : ' The hope that we shall see our departed friends again must support the mind ...
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... letter , with good news for a poor man in distress , ' as he told me . I did not question him particularly as to this . He himself often resembled Lady Bolingbroke's lively description of Pope , that he was un politique aux choux et aux ...
... letter , with good news for a poor man in distress , ' as he told me . I did not question him particularly as to this . He himself often resembled Lady Bolingbroke's lively description of Pope , that he was un politique aux choux et aux ...
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... Letter to Mr. Dunning , on the English Particle ; John- son read it , and though not treated in it with sufficient respect , he had candour enough to say to Mr. Seward , ' Were I to make a new edition of my Dictionary , I would adopt ...
... Letter to Mr. Dunning , on the English Particle ; John- son read it , and though not treated in it with sufficient respect , he had candour enough to say to Mr. Seward , ' Were I to make a new edition of my Dictionary , I would adopt ...
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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.