The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, 第 3 巻1831 |
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... . Bossuet I hold to be one of the first luminaries of religion and literature . If there are who do not read him , it is full time they should begin . - BoSWELL . Hebrid . He asked me whether he had mentioned , 4 1773. - ETAT . 64 .
... . Bossuet I hold to be one of the first luminaries of religion and literature . If there are who do not read him , it is full time they should begin . - BoSWELL . Hebrid . He asked me whether he had mentioned , 4 1773. - ETAT . 64 .
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... asked him several particulars of his life , from his early years , which he readily told me ; and I wrote them down before him . This day I pro- ceeded in my inquiries , also writing them in his pre- I have them on detached sheets * * I ...
... asked him several particulars of his life , from his early years , which he readily told me ; and I wrote them down before him . This day I pro- ceeded in my inquiries , also writing them in his pre- I have them on detached sheets * * I ...
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... asked me to give him some paper to write letters . I begged he would write short ones , and not expatiate , as we ought to set off early . He was irritated by this , and said , " What must be done , must be done : the thing is past a ...
... asked me to give him some paper to write letters . I begged he would write short ones , and not expatiate , as we ought to set off early . He was irritated by this , and said , " What must be done , must be done : the thing is past a ...
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... asked , in the evening , to see Dr. M'Lean's books . He took down " Willis de Anima Brutorum , " and pored over it a good deal . י [ This observation is very just . The time for the Hebrides was too late by a month or six weeks . I have ...
... asked , in the evening , to see Dr. M'Lean's books . He took down " Willis de Anima Brutorum , " and pored over it a good deal . י [ This observation is very just . The time for the Hebrides was too late by a month or six weeks . I have ...
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... asked , " Who is this fellow ? " . Upon being informed , he said , " If I had known who he was , I should have thrown it in his face . " JOHNSON . " There is much want of sense in all this . He had no business to speak with the serjeant ...
... asked , " Who is this fellow ? " . Upon being informed , he said , " If I had known who he was , I should have thrown it in his face . " JOHNSON . " There is much want of sense in all this . He had no business to speak with the serjeant ...
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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
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24 ページ - 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.
350 ページ - 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.
311 ページ - 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.
456 ページ - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
421 ページ - 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.
244 ページ - 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...
276 ページ - ... 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.
196 ページ - 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.
34 ページ - 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.
319 ページ - 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.