Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 5A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... soon as Edwards had brought to his recollection their having been at Pembroke College together nine - and - forty years ago , he seemed much pleased , asked where he lived , and said he should be glad to see him at Bolt Court . EDWARDS ...
... soon as Edwards had brought to his recollection their having been at Pembroke College together nine - and - forty years ago , he seemed much pleased , asked where he lived , and said he should be glad to see him at Bolt Court . EDWARDS ...
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... soon to be published . It was a very strange performance , the author having mixed in it his own thoughts upon various topics , along with his remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming operations . He seemed to be an absurd ...
... soon to be published . It was a very strange performance , the author having mixed in it his own thoughts upon various topics , along with his remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming operations . He seemed to be an absurd ...
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... Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent Observations on the Statutes , Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gentleman ; and having told him his name , courteously said , ' I have read your book , sir ...
... Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent Observations on the Statutes , Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gentleman ; and having told him his name , courteously said , ' I have read your book , sir ...
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... soon drive him away . ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , sir , we'll send you to him . If your company does not drive a man out of his house , nothing will . ' This was a horrible shock , for which there was no visible cause . I afterwards asked him ...
... soon drive him away . ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , sir , we'll send you to him . If your company does not drive a man out of his house , nothing will . ' This was a horrible shock , for which there was no visible cause . I afterwards asked him ...
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... soon , and that he was uneasy to think that he might behave in the same manner to me . " No , no , sir ( said Johnson ) , I warrant you Robertson and I shall do very well . " Accordingly he was gentle and good- humoured and courteous ...
... soon , and that he was uneasy to think that he might behave in the same manner to me . " No , no , sir ( said Johnson ) , I warrant you Robertson and I shall do very well . " Accordingly he was gentle and good- humoured and courteous ...
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acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk believe Bishop Bolt Court Burke called character consider conversation dear sir death dined drink Edwards elegant eminent entertained excellent expressed favour Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give happy hear heard honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind lady Langton learning letter Levett liberty Lichfield literary Lives London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Camden Lord Marchmont Lordship LUCY PORTER madam manner Marchmont ment mentioned mind Miss never night observed occasion once opinion perhaps pleased pleasure poetry Poets Pope praise pretty woman received recollect remark respect SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Various Readings verse WARREN HASTINGS Whig Wilkes wine wish word write written wrote young
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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.