Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... asked him how he did , ' Ready to become a scoundrel , Madam ; with a little more spoiling you will , I think , make me a complete rascal ' : ' he meant , easy to become a capricious and self- indulgent valetudinarian ; a character for ...
... asked him how he did , ' Ready to become a scoundrel , Madam ; with a little more spoiling you will , I think , make me a complete rascal ' : ' he meant , easy to become a capricious and self- indulgent valetudinarian ; a character for ...
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... asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended what he wished on his own account . ' I was not pleased that his intimacy Baretti says , that Mrs. Thrale abruptly proposed to start for Bath , as wishing to avoid the sight of the ...
... asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended what he wished on his own account . ' I was not pleased that his intimacy Baretti says , that Mrs. Thrale abruptly proposed to start for Bath , as wishing to avoid the sight of the ...
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... asked , -Is not this fine ? Shiels having expressed the highest admiration . Well , Sir , ( said I , ) I have omitted every other line " . ' See ante , ii . 188 . * See ante , ii . 182 . 3 See post , under date of Dec. 24 , 1783 , where ...
... asked , -Is not this fine ? Shiels having expressed the highest admiration . Well , Sir , ( said I , ) I have omitted every other line " . ' See ante , ii . 188 . * See ante , ii . 182 . 3 See post , under date of Dec. 24 , 1783 , where ...
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... asking his pardon for repeating some oaths in the course of telling a story ' . Johnson and I supt this evening at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in company with Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr. Langton , Mr. Nairne2 , now one of the Scotch ...
... asking his pardon for repeating some oaths in the course of telling a story ' . Johnson and I supt this evening at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in company with Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr. Langton , Mr. Nairne2 , now one of the Scotch ...
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... asked whether he had read Mrs. Macaulay's second volume of the History of England , " No , Sir , " says he , “ nor her first neither . " Johnson's Works ( 1787 ) , xi . 205 . 3.Of this distinguished Epilogue the reputed author was the ...
... asked whether he had read Mrs. Macaulay's second volume of the History of England , " No , Sir , " says he , “ nor her first neither . " Johnson's Works ( 1787 ) , xi . 205 . 3.Of this distinguished Epilogue the reputed author was the ...
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الصفحة 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
الصفحة 455 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 455 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
الصفحة 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
الصفحة 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
الصفحة 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
الصفحة 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
الصفحة 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
الصفحة 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
الصفحة 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?