Boswell's Life of JohnsonC. Scribner's sons, 1917 - 574 páginas |
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... play the game ? How did they fight the fight that I am to fight , and how in any case did they lose or win ? To these questions biography gives the direct answer . Such is its importance over other literature . For such reasons ...
... play the game ? How did they fight the fight that I am to fight , and how in any case did they lose or win ? To these questions biography gives the direct answer . Such is its importance over other literature . For such reasons ...
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... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so emi- nent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the ...
... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so emi- nent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the ...
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... play was in rehearsal , and during its performance , brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes , which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his Life of Savage ...
... play was in rehearsal , and during its performance , brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes , which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his Life of Savage ...
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... play was very well received . Doddy , after the danger was over , went every night to the stage - side , and cried at the distress of poor Cleone . 3 ' I have left off housekeeping , and therefore made presents of the game which you ...
... play was very well received . Doddy , after the danger was over , went every night to the stage - side , and cried at the distress of poor Cleone . 3 ' I have left off housekeeping , and therefore made presents of the game which you ...
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... Last winter I went down to my native town , where I found the streets much narrower and shorter than I thought I had left them , inhabited by a new race of people , to whom I was very little known . My play - fellows 1762] ...
... Last winter I went down to my native town , where I found the streets much narrower and shorter than I thought I had left them , inhabited by a new race of people , to whom I was very little known . My play - fellows 1762] ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards agreeable answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better bookseller BOSWELL Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink Edited eminent entertained favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind morning never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure Poets pounds praise publick recollect Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks truth University of Oxford Whig Wilkes wine wish wonder write wrote
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Página 64 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;*— * that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Página 127 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 65 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord. " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Página 190 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life ? " JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all
Página 230 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 119 - Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
Página 64 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
Página 64 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with...
Página 107 - ... 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. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Página 339 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.