Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... drinking " . ' We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney coach , to Mr. See ante , ii . 75 . 1 Ante , April 10 , 1775 . 3 See ante , March 21 , 1776 , and post , Sept. 19 ...
... drinking " . ' We stopped at Messieurs Dillys , booksellers in the Poultry ; from whence he hurried away , in a hackney coach , to Mr. See ante , ii . 75 . 1 Ante , April 10 , 1775 . 3 See ante , March 21 , 1776 , and post , Sept. 19 ...
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... drinking . " Wesley's Journal , i . 347 . Young , in his Epistles to Pope , No. ii . says : - " three ells round huge Cheyne rails at meat . ' Dr. J. H. Burton ( Life of Hume , i . 45 ) shews reason for believing that a very curious ...
... drinking . " Wesley's Journal , i . 347 . Young , in his Epistles to Pope , No. ii . says : - " three ells round huge Cheyne rails at meat . ' Dr. J. H. Burton ( Life of Hume , i . 45 ) shews reason for believing that a very curious ...
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... drinking improved con- versation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON . No , Sir : before dinner men meet with great in- equality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority , have the modesty ...
... drinking improved con- versation and benevolence . Sir Joshua maintained it did . JOHNSON . No , Sir : before dinner men meet with great in- equality of understanding ; and those who are conscious of their inferiority , have the modesty ...
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... drinking . JOHNSON . ' Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company ' . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
... drinking . JOHNSON . ' Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company ' . I have drunk many a bottle by myself ...
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... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath ... drink the waters for indigestion . ' town waits are also mentioned . season was not far from its close when Boswell ...
... drinking and talk . I shall group together such of his sayings as I preserved during the few days that I was at Bath ... drink the waters for indigestion . ' town waits are also mentioned . season was not far from its close when Boswell ...
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acquaintance Aetat afterwards Anec ante April April 15 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote kind lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion passage Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travelling truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write
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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?