The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... Literary Club His friends desire that he should winter in Italy Captain Carleton's memoirs • The Lord Chancellor's answer to the application for assistance to winter in Italy 238 • 240 240 244 • Boswell stays a day longer in London to ...
... Literary Club His friends desire that he should winter in Italy Captain Carleton's memoirs • The Lord Chancellor's answer to the application for assistance to winter in Italy 238 • 240 240 244 • Boswell stays a day longer in London to ...
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... literary inquiry and obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson . Mr. Steevens appears , from the papers in my possession , to have supplied him with some anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as ...
... literary inquiry and obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson . Mr. Steevens appears , from the papers in my possession , to have supplied him with some anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as ...
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... literary history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed , his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his ...
... literary history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed , his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his ...
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... literary productions was exhibited also in his conversation , which was various , striking and instructive ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him for nervous and pointed repartees . His Dictionary , his Moral Essays , and his ...
... literary productions was exhibited also in his conversation , which was various , striking and instructive ; and perhaps no man ever equalled him for nervous and pointed repartees . His Dictionary , his Moral Essays , and his ...
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... literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after desisting from it , from a sup- 1 Mr. Malone thinks it is rather a proof that he felt nothing of those cheerful sensations which he has described : that on ...
... literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after desisting from it , from a sup- 1 Mr. Malone thinks it is rather a proof that he felt nothing of those cheerful sensations which he has described : that on ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1889 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1884 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1884 |
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Página 306 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 9 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; 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 222 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Página 51 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 59 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humor, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.