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... Lichfield lamps , " Now , " said he , " we are getting out of a state of death . ' We put up at the Three Crowns , not one of the great inns , but a good old - fashioned one , which was kept by Mr. Wilkins , and was the very next house ...
... Lichfield lamps , " Now , " said he , " we are getting out of a state of death . ' We put up at the Three Crowns , not one of the great inns , but a good old - fashioned one , which was kept by Mr. Wilkins , and was the very next house ...
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... Lichfield . He was engaged to dinner , but asked us to tea , and to sleep at his house . Johnson , however , would not quit his old acquaintance Wilkins , of the Three Crowns . The family likeness of the Garricks . was very striking ...
... Lichfield . He was engaged to dinner , but asked us to tea , and to sleep at his house . Johnson , however , would not quit his old acquaintance Wilkins , of the Three Crowns . The family likeness of the Garricks . was very striking ...
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... Lichfield and its inhabitants , who , he said , were " the most sober , decent people in England , the genteelest in proportion to their wealth , and spoke the purest English . " I doubted as to the last article of this eulogy : for ...
... Lichfield and its inhabitants , who , he said , were " the most sober , decent people in England , the genteelest in proportion to their wealth , and spoke the purest English . " I doubted as to the last article of this eulogy : for ...
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... Lichfield , 1776 , " would have sounded as well as , " Prologue , spoken before the Duke of York , at Oxford , " in Charles the Second's time . Much might have been said of what Lichfield had done for Shakespeare by producing Johnson ...
... Lichfield , 1776 , " would have sounded as well as , " Prologue , spoken before the Duke of York , at Oxford , " in Charles the Second's time . Much might have been said of what Lichfield had done for Shakespeare by producing Johnson ...
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... Lichfield , and Taylor had returned an answer that his post - chaise should come for us this day . While we sat at breakfast , Dr. Johnson received a letter by the post , which seemed to agitate him very much . When he had read it , he ...
... Lichfield , and Taylor had returned an answer that his post - chaise should come for us this day . While we sat at breakfast , Dr. Johnson received a letter by the post , which seemed to agitate him very much . When he had read it , he ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2 James Boswell,Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1791 |
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Página 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 352 - 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 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Página 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Página 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Página 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.