Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence1 . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived ...
... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence1 . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived ...
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... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , -or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' Talking of melancholy , he said ...
... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , -or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' Talking of melancholy , he said ...
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... happy than Dr. Johnson in the ex- tempore and masterly defence of any cause which , at the given moment , he chose to defend . ' Stockdale's Memoirs , i . 261 . 2 Burke , in a letter that he wrote in 1771 ( Corres . i . 330 ) , must ...
... happy than Dr. Johnson in the ex- tempore and masterly defence of any cause which , at the given moment , he chose to defend . ' Stockdale's Memoirs , i . 261 . 2 Burke , in a letter that he wrote in 1771 ( Corres . i . 330 ) , must ...
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... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality " . When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality " . When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
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... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved ; he is only not sensible of his defects . ' Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved ; he is only not sensible of his defects . ' Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
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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?