Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life1826 - 237 páginas |
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... occasion , be the writers of his life : like the first representation of the Masque of Comus , which by changing their characters from spectators to performers , was acted by the lords and ladies it was written to entertain . This ...
... occasion , be the writers of his life : like the first representation of the Masque of Comus , which by changing their characters from spectators to performers , was acted by the lords and ladies it was written to entertain . This ...
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... occasion that offered : his disquisition on Pope's epitaph placed over Mrs. Corbet , is a proof of that preference always given by him to a noise- less life over a bustling one ; but however taste begins , we almost always see that it ...
... occasion that offered : his disquisition on Pope's epitaph placed over Mrs. Corbet , is a proof of that preference always given by him to a noise- less life over a bustling one ; but however taste begins , we almost always see that it ...
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... occasion , forbear recol- lecting the predictions of Boileau's father , when stroking the head of the young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne ? Such are the ...
... occasion , forbear recol- lecting the predictions of Boileau's father , when stroking the head of the young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne ? Such are the ...
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... occasion commends like a pe- dant , and Pere Rollin applauds like a slave ? If Cyrus by his conquests had not purchased emancipation , he had conquered to little pur- pose indeed . Can you forbear to see the fol- ly of a fellow who has ...
... occasion commends like a pe- dant , and Pere Rollin applauds like a slave ? If Cyrus by his conquests had not purchased emancipation , he had conquered to little pur- pose indeed . Can you forbear to see the fol- ly of a fellow who has ...
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... occasion I asked him ( knowing what subject he would like best to talk upon ) , how his opinion stood towards the question between Paschal and Soame Jennings about number and nume- ration ? as the French philosopher observes that ...
... occasion I asked him ( knowing what subject he would like best to talk upon ) , how his opinion stood towards the question between Paschal and Soame Jennings about number and nume- ration ? as the French philosopher observes that ...
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Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: in large print Hester Lynch Piozzi,Henry Morley Pré-visualização limitada - 2022 |
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D: During the Last Twenty Years of ... Hester Lynch Piozzi Pré-visualização limitada - 2022 |
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Página 55 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 45 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 127 - Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five ; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five ; For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five ; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five ; And all who wisely...
Página 49 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Página 7 - Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'.
Página 104 - Here, closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face.' " Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the friendship, of Dr. Johnson ; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's...
Página 189 - I was suffering horrid tortures (said he), and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that, and so they never perceived my not eating, nor I believe at all imaged to themselves the anguish of my heart : but when all were gone except Johnson here, I burst out a-crying, and even swore by that I would never write again.
Página 120 - Mr. Johnson had however an avowed and scarcely limited partiality for all who bore the name or boasted the alliance of an Aston or a Hervey ; and when Mr.
Página 50 - A famous ballad also, beginning Rio verde, Rio verde, when I commended the translation of it, he said he could do it better himself — as thus: Glassy water, glassy water, Down whose current, clear and strong, Chiefs confus'd in mutual slaughter, Moor and Christian roll along.
Página 17 - ... I hope (replied he), that I should have willingly lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them: but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or necessity. You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets, and wonder when you have done that they do not delight in your company.