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Miss M'Lean produced some Erse poems by John M'Lean , who was a famous bard in Mull , and had died only a few years ago . He could neither read nor write . She read and translated two of them ; one a kind of elegy on Sir John M'Lean's ...
Miss M'Lean produced some Erse poems by John M'Lean , who was a famous bard in Mull , and had died only a few years ago . He could neither read nor write . She read and translated two of them ; one a kind of elegy on Sir John M'Lean's ...
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I observed , that hardly any man was accurately prepared for dying ; but almost every one left something undone ... “ Sir , I had an uncle ' who died so ; but such attention requires great leisure , and great firmness of mind .
I observed , that hardly any man was accurately prepared for dying ; but almost every one left something undone ... “ Sir , I had an uncle ' who died so ; but such attention requires great leisure , and great firmness of mind .
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He died one of the librarians of the Bri ish Museum , in 1782. The Biographical Dictionary uys , that he was a short fair man , rather fat , with small eyes , and good hu . Lourd expression of countenance . " - Ed . ] Hebrid .
He died one of the librarians of the Bri ish Museum , in 1782. The Biographical Dictionary uys , that he was a short fair man , rather fat , with small eyes , and good hu . Lourd expression of countenance . " - Ed . ] Hebrid .
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Some years before Dr. Johnson died , I was fortunate enough to bring him and Mr. Wilkes together ; the consequence of which was , that they were ever afterwards on easy and not unfriendly terms . The particulars I shall have great ...
Some years before Dr. Johnson died , I was fortunate enough to bring him and Mr. Wilkes together ; the consequence of which was , that they were ever afterwards on easy and not unfriendly terms . The particulars I shall have great ...
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He treated it with ridicule , and would not allow even the scene of the dying husband and father to be pathetick . I am not an impartial judge ; for Hervey's Meditations engaged my affections in my early years .
He treated it with ridicule , and would not allow even the scene of the dying husband and father to be pathetick . I am not an impartial judge ; for Hervey's Meditations engaged my affections in my early years .
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Página 22 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 348 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.
Página 309 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.
Página 454 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 419 - THAT which is appointed to all men is now coming upon you. Outward circumstances, the eyes and the thoughts of men, are below the notice of an immortal being about to stand 'the trial for eternity, before the Supreme Judge of heaven and earth. Be comforted : your crime, morally or religiously considered, has no very deep dye of turpitude. It corrupted no man's principles ; it attacked no man's life. It involved only a temporary and reparable injury.
Página 242 - The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath...
Página 274 - ... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Página 194 - Sir, the Duchess of Northumberland may do what she pleases: nobody will say anything to a lady of her high rank. But I should be apt to throw ***** *'s verses in his face.
Página 32 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control ; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Página 318 - Fielding's Amelia was the mosT: pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volume 3 The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, John Wilson Croker |
| Autor | James Boswell |
| Publicação | 1831 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 3 Abr 2006 |
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