The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volume 31831 |
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... remark- able , read Homer and Ariosto through every year . I wrote to him to request he would come to us ; but unfortunately he was prevented by indisposition . Monday , 1st November . - Though Dr. Johnson Hebrid . was lazy , and averse ...
... remark- able , read Homer and Ariosto through every year . I wrote to him to request he would come to us ; but unfortunately he was prevented by indisposition . Monday , 1st November . - Though Dr. Johnson Hebrid . was lazy , and averse ...
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... remark . The many imitations , however , of Fingal , that have been published , confirm this observation in a considerable degree . - BoswELL . [ In place of this passage of the first edition , Mr. Boswell afterwards substi- tuted the ...
... remark . The many imitations , however , of Fingal , that have been published , confirm this observation in a considerable degree . - BoswELL . [ In place of this passage of the first edition , Mr. Boswell afterwards substi- tuted the ...
Página 84
... remark are unquestion- able ; yet , had not Dr. Johnson made him advert to the consideration , that he who does not understand a language cannot know that something which is re- cited to him is in that language , he might have be ...
... remark are unquestion- able ; yet , had not Dr. Johnson made him advert to the consideration , that he who does not understand a language cannot know that something which is re- cited to him is in that language , he might have be ...
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... remarked , that " to see a man come up with a formal air , and a Latin line , when we had no fatigue and no danger , was pro- voking . " I told him , he was not sensible of the danger , having lain under cover in the boat during the ...
... remarked , that " to see a man come up with a formal air , and a Latin line , when we had no fatigue and no danger , was pro- voking . " I told him , he was not sensible of the danger , having lain under cover in the boat during the ...
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... remark ap- pears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman , that ...
... remark ap- pears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman , that ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appears Ashbourne authour Baretti Beggar's Opera believe Boswell's called chapel character church compliments conversation court of session dear sir dined dinner doubt Duke Edinburgh elegant England English entertained Erse father favour France Garrick gentleman give happy heard Hebrid Highlands highwaymen honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth island JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson journey kind king lady Langton learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter madam manner mentioned mind Miss morning never night observed occasion opinion Oxford passage perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure publick recollect remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seems seen Sir Allan Sir Joshua Skie Streatham suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tour travels visited Wales Wilkes wish write written wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 24 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 350 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.
Página 311 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.
Página 456 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 421 - THAT which is appointed to all men is now coming upon you. Outward circumstances, the eyes and the thoughts of men, are below the notice of an immortal being about to stand 'the trial for eternity, before the Supreme Judge of heaven and earth. Be comforted : your crime, morally or religiously considered, has no very deep dye of turpitude. It corrupted no man's principles ; it attacked no man's life. It involved only a temporary and reparable injury.
Página 244 - The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath...
Página 276 - ... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Página 196 - Sir, the Duchess of Northumberland may do what she pleases: nobody will say anything to a lady of her high rank. But I should be apt to throw ***** *'s verses in his face.
Página 34 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control ; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Página 319 - Fielding's Amelia was the mosT: pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.