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... seems not to have seen that the brothers have the advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes . The Sicilian Gossips is a piece of merit . ' ' Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from ...
... seems not to have seen that the brothers have the advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes . The Sicilian Gossips is a piece of merit . ' ' Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from ...
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... seems to suppose his understanding . too powerful for his company . 1 Senilia was published in 1742 . The line to which Johnson refers is , ' Mel , nervos , fulgur , Carteret , unus , habes , ' p . 101 . In another line , the poet ...
... seems to suppose his understanding . too powerful for his company . 1 Senilia was published in 1742 . The line to which Johnson refers is , ' Mel , nervos , fulgur , Carteret , unus , habes , ' p . 101 . In another line , the poet ...
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... seems to have little to do . " Mr. Beauclerk observed , " Then , to be sure , Spence turned round and wrote that ... seem frivolous and childish . ' * See ante , i . 332 . Epilogue to the Satires , i . 131 . Dr. James Foster , the ...
... seems to have little to do . " Mr. Beauclerk observed , " Then , to be sure , Spence turned round and wrote that ... seem frivolous and childish . ' * See ante , i . 332 . Epilogue to the Satires , i . 131 . Dr. James Foster , the ...
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... seems to work with unnatural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tip- toe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appear- ance ...
... seems to work with unnatural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tip- toe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appear- ance ...
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... seems that an inferiour domestick of the Duke of Leeds had attempted to celebrate his Grace's marriage in such homely rhimes as he could make ; and this curious composition having been sung to Dr. Johnson he got it by heart , and used ...
... seems that an inferiour domestick of the Duke of Leeds had attempted to celebrate his Grace's marriage in such homely rhimes as he could make ; and this curious composition having been sung to Dr. Johnson he got it by heart , and used ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1891 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ... James Boswell Visualização integral - 1887 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1891 |
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Página 340 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 116 - In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied.
Página 155 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn? O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
Página 253 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd 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 possest.
Página 97 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and...
Página 205 - Johnson, indeed, had thought more upon the subject of acting than might be generally supposed. Talking of it one day to Mr. Kemble, he said, 'Are you, Sir, one of those enthusiasts who believe yourself transformed into the very character you represent ?' Upon Mr. Kemble's answering that he had never felt so strong a persuasion himself ; 'To be sure not, Sir, (said Johnson ; ) the thing is impossible. And if Garrick really believed himself to be that monster, Richard the Third, he deserved to be hanged...
Página 94 - ... seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Página 116 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
Página 94 - ... in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
Página 15 - An eminent foreigner, when he was shown the British Museum, was very troublesome with many absurd inquiries. ' Now there, Sir,' said he, ' is the difference between an Englishman and a Frenchman. A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows any thing of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.