Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... says , that Mrs. Thrale abruptly proposed to start for Bath , as wishing to avoid the sight of the funeral . She had no man - friend to go with her , ' and so he offered his services . Johnson at that moment arrived . ' I expected that ...
... says , that Mrs. Thrale abruptly proposed to start for Bath , as wishing to avoid the sight of the funeral . She had no man - friend to go with her , ' and so he offered his services . Johnson at that moment arrived . ' I expected that ...
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... says that ' the real state of the case was that he had gone mad , and was in that state sent home . ' He died before the sentence of the court - martial was promulgated . Croker's Boswell , p . 497 . In Thoughts on the Coronation of ...
... says that ' the real state of the case was that he had gone mad , and was in that state sent home . ' He died before the sentence of the court - martial was promulgated . Croker's Boswell , p . 497 . In Thoughts on the Coronation of ...
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... say which is best3 . But in justice to both those noble seminaries , I with high satisfaction declare , that my boys have ... says that the first Pitt told him ' that his reason for preferring private to public edu- cation was , that he ...
... say which is best3 . But in justice to both those noble seminaries , I with high satisfaction declare , that my boys have ... says that the first Pitt told him ' that his reason for preferring private to public edu- cation was , that he ...
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... says , that ' he has been credibly informed that the professor had not the defect here mentioned . ' The story is not quite as Boswell tells it . ' Maclaurin , ' writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw ...
... says , that ' he has been credibly informed that the professor had not the defect here mentioned . ' The story is not quite as Boswell tells it . ' Maclaurin , ' writes Goldsmith ( ii . 91 ) , ' was very subject to have his jaw ...
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... says : - ' Mr. Thrale , who was a worldly man , and followed the direction of his own feelings with no philosophical or Christian distinctions , having now lost the strong hope of being one day succeeded in the profitable Brewery by the ...
... says : - ' Mr. Thrale , who was a worldly man , and followed the direction of his own feelings with no philosophical or Christian distinctions , having now lost the strong hope of being one day succeeded in the profitable Brewery by 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?