Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... passage is of his writing ( see ante , i . 361 ) . He says : - ' It cannot but offend every Englishman to see troops of soldiers placed between him and his sovereign , as if they were the most honourable of the people , or the King ...
... passage is of his writing ( see ante , i . 361 ) . He says : - ' It cannot but offend every Englishman to see troops of soldiers placed between him and his sovereign , as if they were the most honourable of the people , or the King ...
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... passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of ...
... passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of ...
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... passages that I heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ...
... passages that I heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ...
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... passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to subjoin . ' This account is very inaccurate . The following statement of facts we know to be true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the prin- cipal collector and ...
... passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to subjoin . ' This account is very inaccurate . The following statement of facts we know to be true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the prin- cipal collector and ...
الصفحة 31
... passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 175 ) made annotations on a copy of Langbaine's Dramatic Poets . ' This ...
... passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 175 ) made annotations on a copy of Langbaine's Dramatic Poets . ' This ...
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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?