The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A Reprint of the First Edition, to which are Added Mr. Boswell's Corrections and Aditions, Issued in 1792; the Variations of the Second Edition, with Some of the Author's Notes Prepared for the Third, Band 2S. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1900 |
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... heard he was the greatest man in England , -next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection ...
... heard he was the greatest man in England , -next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection ...
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... heard any man speak of any future enjoyment with such contortions of delight as he exhibited when he talked of eating the young ones . " On the margin of her copy Mrs. Piozzi writes that this was Hawkins Browne . Sidney Smith's ...
... heard any man speak of any future enjoyment with such contortions of delight as he exhibited when he talked of eating the young ones . " On the margin of her copy Mrs. Piozzi writes that this was Hawkins Browne . Sidney Smith's ...
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... heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off ...
... heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off ...
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... heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we who were sitting around could hardly stifle laughter , produced a very ludicrous effect ...
... heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we who were sitting around could hardly stifle laughter , produced a very ludicrous effect ...
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... heard of Goldsmith . It is difficult to get literary fame , and it is every day growing more difficult . Ah , Sir , that should make a man think of securing happiness in another world , which all who try sincerely for it may attain . In ...
... heard of Goldsmith . It is difficult to get literary fame , and it is every day growing more difficult . Ah , Sir , that should make a man think of securing happiness in another world , which all who try sincerely for it may attain . In ...
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Seite 465 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Seite 216 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Seite 497 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Seite 428 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Seite 156 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
Seite 463 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Seite 145 - Pray give me leave, Sir : — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Seite 84 - There is no private house (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever [so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every...
Seite 224 - 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.
Seite 321 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless...