The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 9J. Murray, 1835 |
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... thing of himself , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he kept on steadily enough ...
... thing of himself , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he kept on steadily enough ...
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... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or ne- cessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of ... thing should be learned , was however so certainly his opinion , that I have heard him say , how education had been ...
... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or ne- cessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of ... thing should be learned , was however so certainly his opinion , that I have heard him say , how education had been ...
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... thing more that Dr. Johnson said about babyhood before I quit the subject ; it was this : " That little people should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant ...
... thing more that Dr. Johnson said about babyhood before I quit the subject ; it was this : " That little people should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant ...
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... things . He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quæ sit poterit cognoscere virtus . - Suppose , Sir , that the angel of this auspicious youth , foreseeing the many , virtues , which made him one of the most amiable , as he ...
... things . He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quæ sit poterit cognoscere virtus . - Suppose , Sir , that the angel of this auspicious youth , foreseeing the many , virtues , which made him one of the most amiable , as he ...
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... thing could intervene that might make me forget the force of the expressions : a trick , which I have how- ever seen ... things , which , as the phrase is , pass well enough at the time , though they cannot stand the test of critical ...
... thing could intervene that might make me forget the force of the expressions : a trick , which I have how- ever seen ... things , which , as the phrase is , pass well enough at the time , though they cannot stand the test of critical ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 9 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1853 |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 9 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1853 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance ANECDOTES OF DR answer antè asked believe better Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burke Burney called character commended conversation dear death delight desired dinner Doctor dress Edmund Burke expressed eyes familiar chat favour favourite fear fellow Frank Barber Garrick gentleman George Psalmanazar give hand hated Hawkins hear heard heart honour Hoole hope human humour Jeremiah Markland knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield lived look Lord loved Lucy Porter Madam manner Markland mentioned mind morning nature never observed occasion once opinion perhaps person pleasure Poets praise recollect remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson Sastres says Johnson seemed Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told took truth verses virtue Whig Whiggism wife wished words write young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 19 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 205 - Tis real good, or seeming, moves them all : But since not every good we can divide ; And reason bids us for our own provide : Passions, though selfish, if their means be fair, List under Reason, and deserve her care ; Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take some virtue's name.
Página 11 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne...
Página 12 - If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body, and should tell him, ' Young man, there is America...
Página 11 - Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future.
Página 326 - Adams had contrived a very pretty piece of gallantry. We spent the day and evening at his house. After dinner Johnson begged to conduct me to see the College; he would let no one show it me but himself. 'This was my room; this Shenstone's.
Página 122 - Visitors are no proper companions in the chamber of sickness. They come when I could sleep or read, they stay till I am weary, they force me to attend when my mind calls for relaxation, and to speak when my powers will hardly actuate my tongue. The...
Página 85 - Johnson, amazed at his odd frankness), I thought had been a secret between you and me ; and I am sure I would not have said any thing about it for the world.
Página 70 - See the jockey, see the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high, What are acres? What are houses?
Página 4 - some general principles of every science; he who can talk only on one subject, or act only in one department, is seldom wanted, and perhaps never wished for; while the man of general knowledge can often benefit and always please.