Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 ページ |
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... Brocklesby ; to whom he had put this question , " What would be a proper annuity to bequeath to a favourite servant ? " The doctor answered , that the circumstances of the master were the truest mea- sure ; and that , in the case of a ...
... Brocklesby ; to whom he had put this question , " What would be a proper annuity to bequeath to a favourite servant ? " The doctor answered , that the circumstances of the master were the truest mea- sure ; and that , in the case of a ...
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... Brocklesby came in , and , taking him by the wrist , John- son gave him a look of great contempt , and ridiculed the judging of his disorder by the pulse . He complained , that the sarcocele had again made its appearance , and asked if ...
... Brocklesby came in , and , taking him by the wrist , John- son gave him a look of great contempt , and ridiculed the judging of his disorder by the pulse . He complained , that the sarcocele had again made its appearance , and asked if ...
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... Brocklesby . - Lord Thurlow . Johnson , in 1783 , meditated a tour into Italy or Por- tugal , for the sake of the climate . But Dr. Brocklesby , his friend and physician , conjured him , by every argument in his power , not to go abroad ...
... Brocklesby . - Lord Thurlow . Johnson , in 1783 , meditated a tour into Italy or Por- tugal , for the sake of the climate . But Dr. Brocklesby , his friend and physician , conjured him , by every argument in his power , not to go abroad ...
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... Brocklesby came in , and Dr. Johnson put the question to him , whether he thought he could live six weeks , to which Dr. Brocklesby returned a very doubtful answer , and soon left us . After dinner the will was finish- ed , and about ...
... Brocklesby came in , and Dr. Johnson put the question to him , whether he thought he could live six weeks , to which Dr. Brocklesby returned a very doubtful answer , and soon left us . After dinner the will was finish- ed , and about ...
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... several excellent things that evening , and among the rest , that " scruples made many ( * ) The other two were Dr. Brocklesby and myself . - J . HOOLE . ( † ) [ See No. 91. ] men miserable , but few men good . " He 176 JOHNSONIANA .
... several excellent things that evening , and among the rest , that " scruples made many ( * ) The other two were Dr. Brocklesby and myself . - J . HOOLE . ( † ) [ See No. 91. ] men miserable , but few men good . " He 176 JOHNSONIANA .
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468 ページ - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
391 ページ - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
441 ページ - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
376 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
468 ページ - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
392 ページ - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
387 ページ - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
32 ページ - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
26 ページ - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
394 ページ - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable...