The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, المجلد 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... kind of inversion which Johnson laughed at in " hermit hoar " and " evening gray . ” and " Evening spreads his mantle hoar , " " Beneath the beech whose branches bare . " ( T. Warton's Works , v . i . pp . 130 , 146. ) But there is no ...
... kind of inversion which Johnson laughed at in " hermit hoar " and " evening gray . ” and " Evening spreads his mantle hoar , " " Beneath the beech whose branches bare . " ( T. Warton's Works , v . i . pp . 130 , 146. ) But there is no ...
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... to sit quietly and make tea for him , as Mrs. Thrale often did in London till four o'clock in the morning . At Streatham , she managed better , having always some friend who was kind enough to engage him in talk 56 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
... to sit quietly and make tea for him , as Mrs. Thrale often did in London till four o'clock in the morning . At Streatham , she managed better , having always some friend who was kind enough to engage him in talk 56 1777. - ETAT . 68 .
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... kind enough to engage him in talk , and favour her retreat . ] [ Indeed , he has been known to say , " Whoever Hawk . Apoph . thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a p . 211 . scoundrel . " Having nothing in particular to do ...
... kind enough to engage him in talk , and favour her retreat . ] [ Indeed , he has been known to say , " Whoever Hawk . Apoph . thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a p . 211 . scoundrel . " Having nothing in particular to do ...
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... kind to me that I hope I never shall forget it , and if it be troublesome to you to write , I shall hope that she will do me another act of kindness by answering this letter , for I beg that I may hear from you by some hand or another ...
... kind to me that I hope I never shall forget it , and if it be troublesome to you to write , I shall hope that she will do me another act of kindness by answering this letter , for I beg that I may hear from you by some hand or another ...
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... kind of indefinite crime , not capital , but punishable at the discretion of the court . You cannot want matter : all that needs to be said will easily occur . mon . " Mr. Shaw , the authour of the Gaelick Grammar , desires me to make a ...
... kind of indefinite crime , not capital , but punishable at the discretion of the court . You cannot want matter : all that needs to be said will easily occur . mon . " Mr. Shaw , the authour of the Gaelick Grammar , desires me to make a ...
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الصفحة 465 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
الصفحة 15 - No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm ; and that I felt all the dulcedo of the natale solum.
الصفحة 398 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
الصفحة 464 - It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear...
الصفحة 110 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
الصفحة 238 - I reminded him how heartily he and I used to drink wine together, when we were first acquainted ; and how I used to have a headache after sitting up with him. He did not like to have this recalled, or, perhaps, thinking that I boasted improperly, resolved to have a witty stroke at ine ; " Nay, sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it.
الصفحة 180 - We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us...
الصفحة 1 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
الصفحة 426 - I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery. What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
الصفحة 465 - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.