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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... hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately , that he might judge who had the happiest cadence . " No ...
... hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately , that he might judge who had the happiest cadence . " No ...
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... hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous editions and quick sale of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two ...
... hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous editions and quick sale of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two ...
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... hear particularly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant , immediately before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences . He perfectly remem- bered the first time he ever heard of heaven and hell , " he ...
... hear particularly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant , immediately before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences . He perfectly remem- bered the first time he ever heard of heaven and hell , " he ...
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... hears that " Creation sleeps ; ' tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This , " said he , " is true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in ...
... hears that " Creation sleeps ; ' tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This , " said he , " is true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in ...
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... hear of the Punic war while he lived : such conversation was lost time , " he said , " and carried one away from common life , leaving no ideas behind which could serve living wight as warning or direction . How I should act is not the ...
... hear of the Punic war while he lived : such conversation was lost time , " he said , " and carried one away from common life , leaving no ideas behind which could serve living wight as warning or direction . How I should act is not the ...
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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...