The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen1Derby & Jackson, 1860 |
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... talk or his literary conversations only that have been published ; all his most private and most trifling corres- pondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses- all his most secret communion with his own ...
... talk or his literary conversations only that have been published ; all his most private and most trifling corres- pondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses- all his most secret communion with his own ...
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... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extra- ordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way ...
... talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence with one so zealous and so able to record . Dr. Johnson was a man of extra- ordinary powers , but Mr. Boswell had qualities , in their own way ...
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... talk , found a pleasure , when silent , in writing down the talk of others , even to their Arlequiniana , for Harlequin too must talk in France . Of their flock , the bell - weather is the Menagiana . Yet the four volumes are eclipsed ...
... talk , found a pleasure , when silent , in writing down the talk of others , even to their Arlequiniana , for Harlequin too must talk in France . Of their flock , the bell - weather is the Menagiana . Yet the four volumes are eclipsed ...
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... Talk - Influence of the Weather - Swift - Thomson - Burke - Sheridan - Evidences of Christianity - Derrick - Day at Greenwich - The Methodists - Johnson's " Walk " --The Con- vocation - Blacklock - Johnson accompanies Boswell to Harwich ...
... Talk - Influence of the Weather - Swift - Thomson - Burke - Sheridan - Evidences of Christianity - Derrick - Day at Greenwich - The Methodists - Johnson's " Walk " --The Con- vocation - Blacklock - Johnson accompanies Boswell to Harwich ...
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... talk at such times as I had the good for- tune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
... talk at such times as I had the good for- tune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1 James Boswell Vista de fragmentos - 1856 |
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Página 215 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 59 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 118 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Página 216 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 184 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 330 - He had sagacity enough to cultivate assiduously the acquaintance of Johnson, and his faculties were gradually enlarged by the contemplation of such a model. To me and many others it appeared that he studiously copied the manner of Johnson, though, indeed, upon a smaller scale.
Página 31 - But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from...
Página 205 - ... fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop...
Página 71 - James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Página 241 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.