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... excellent steel engravings are added . The index is not so complete as in the previous octavo edition . It was first published at fifty shillings , and then reduced to thirty shillings . It also came out in Bohn's Shilling Series ' in ...
... excellent steel engravings are added . The index is not so complete as in the previous octavo edition . It was first published at fifty shillings , and then reduced to thirty shillings . It also came out in Bohn's Shilling Series ' in ...
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... excellent edition produced by him in 1884 : ' The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , by J. Boswell ; new edition , with notes and appendices ' ( G. Bell & Sons ) , 1884 , five handsome ...
... excellent edition produced by him in 1884 : ' The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , by J. Boswell ; new edition , with notes and appendices ' ( G. Bell & Sons ) , 1884 , five handsome ...
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... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
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... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
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... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
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Página 256 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Página 256 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Página 241 - That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Página 41 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 470 - Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again.
Página 411 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Página 158 - Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord...
Página 275 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Página 6 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark, that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving z with violent commotion.
Página 119 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...