Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 5A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... thought to be such extravagance or bad manage- ment , that he was living much beyond his income , his lady had objected to the cutting of a pickled mango , and that I had taken an opportunity to ask the price of it , and found that it ...
... thought to be such extravagance or bad manage- ment , that he was living much beyond his income , his lady had objected to the cutting of a pickled mango , and that I had taken an opportunity to ask the price of it , and found that it ...
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... thought it an exquisite trait of character . The truth is , that philosophy , like religion , is too generally supposed to be hard and severe , at least so grave as to exclude all gaiety . EDWARDS : ' I have been twice married , Doctor ...
... thought it an exquisite trait of character . The truth is , that philosophy , like religion , is too generally supposed to be hard and severe , at least so grave as to exclude all gaiety . EDWARDS : ' I have been twice married , Doctor ...
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... thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I would rather have him with me than a more sensible man who will not talk readily . This man is always willing ...
... thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I would rather have him with me than a more sensible man who will not talk readily . This man is always willing ...
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... thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON : ' Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . ' BoswELL : ' I do not think , sir , it would have been better , for we should not have had the ...
... thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON : ' Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . ' BoswELL : ' I do not think , sir , it would have been better , for we should not have had the ...
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... thought it a dispro- portionate prosperity ; but while he , as a philosopher , asserted an exemption from envy , non equidem invideo , he went on in the words of the poet , miror magis : thereby signifying either that he was occu pied ...
... thought it a dispro- portionate prosperity ; but while he , as a philosopher , asserted an exemption from envy , non equidem invideo , he went on in the words of the poet , miror magis : thereby signifying either that he was occu pied ...
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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.