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... writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life ... writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw dislocated ; so that when he opened his mouth ...
... writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life ... writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw dislocated ; so that when he opened his mouth ...
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... write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , ” said Johnson , " but thou must ...
... write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , ” said Johnson , " but thou must ...
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... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through ... writes : - ' The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through ... writes : - ' The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of ...
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... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty ' , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher ' He would not , I ...
... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty ' , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher ' He would not , I ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1780 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 3;Volumes 1776-1780 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1887 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance Aetat afterwards Anec ante April April 15 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote kind lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion passage Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travelling truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 455 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 455 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Página 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Página 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Página 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
Página 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?