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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... land . I was afraid he would now take a sudden resolution to give up seeing Icolmkill . A dish of tea , and some good bread and butter , did him service , and his bad humour went off . I told him , that I was diverted to hear all the ...
... land . I was afraid he would now take a sudden resolution to give up seeing Icolmkill . A dish of tea , and some good bread and butter , did him service , and his bad humour went off . I told him , that I was diverted to hear all the ...
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... land arose from his anxiety to have an oppor- tunity of conveying letters to his friends . After dinner , we proceeded to Dr. M'Lean's , which was about a mile from our inn . He was not at home , but we were received by his lady and ...
... land arose from his anxiety to have an oppor- tunity of conveying letters to his friends . After dinner , we proceeded to Dr. M'Lean's , which was about a mile from our inn . He was not at home , but we were received by his lady and ...
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... land , I am in no such haste . " I was amused with his being so easily satisfied ; for the truth was , that the gen- tleman who was to convey our letters , as I was now informed , was not to set out for Inverary for some time ; so that ...
... land , I am in no such haste . " I was amused with his being so easily satisfied ; for the truth was , that the gen- tleman who was to convey our letters , as I was now informed , was not to set out for Inverary for some time ; so that ...
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... land . As we walked up from the shore , Dr. Johnson's heart was cheered by the sight of a road marked with cart - wheels , as on the main land ; a thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which ...
... land . As we walked up from the shore , Dr. Johnson's heart was cheered by the sight of a road marked with cart - wheels , as on the main land ; a thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which ...
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... land in the night , and carry off every thing you have in the house , which , in a remote country , would be more valuable than cows and sheep ? add to all this the danger of having your throat cut . " BOSWELL . " I would have a 1 ...
... land in the night , and carry off every thing you have in the house , which , in a remote country , would be more valuable than cows and sheep ? add to all this the danger of having your throat cut . " BOSWELL . " I would have a 1 ...
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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.