Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1887 - Authors, English |
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... asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man [ Swift ] with whom he lived in intimacy . Johnson , " Why no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " ' Boswell's Hebri- des , Sept. 22 ...
... asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man [ Swift ] with whom he lived in intimacy . Johnson , " Why no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " ' Boswell's Hebri- des , Sept. 22 ...
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... asked by my mother whom he would invite to the Riding ; and answered , " all the town now . " He feasted the citizens with uncommon magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding . ' Annals , p . He ...
... asked by my mother whom he would invite to the Riding ; and answered , " all the town now . " He feasted the citizens with uncommon magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding . ' Annals , p . He ...
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... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon of Birming- ham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferiour to her ...
... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon of Birming- ham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferiour to her ...
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... asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , because it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had caught ...
... asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , because it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had caught ...
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... asked for subscriptions to carry on his great undertaking , for in its researches it was to be very great . In 1744 the City of London resolved to subscribe £ 50 for seven years ( ib . xiv . 393 ) . In vol . i . of his history , which ...
... asked for subscriptions to carry on his great undertaking , for in its researches it was to be very great . In 1744 the City of London resolved to subscribe £ 50 for seven years ( ib . xiv . 393 ) . In vol . i . of his history , which ...
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Page 260 - ... was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 193 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Page 349 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 494 - Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings,...
Page 441 - ... Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. I love the young dogs of this age, they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life than we had, but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad...
Page xxiii - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 393 - Sir, (said I,) I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you." He seemed pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him, and answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me.
Page 421 - Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man : his learning was not profound ; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high.
Page 312 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Page 408 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck.