The Life of Samuel Johnson: March 19, 1776-Dec. 13, 1784I. Pitman & Sons, 1907 - 1172 páginas |
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... passed the evening by ourselves in easy and familiar conversation . Talking of constitutional melancholy , he observed , " A man so afflicted , Sir , must divert distressing thoughts , and not combat with them . " BOSWELL : May not he ...
... passed the evening by ourselves in easy and familiar conversation . Talking of constitutional melancholy , he observed , " A man so afflicted , Sir , must divert distressing thoughts , and not combat with them . " BOSWELL : May not he ...
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... passed a part of the evening . We talked of biography . - JOHNSON : " It is rarely well executed . They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man ...
... passed a part of the evening . We talked of biography . - JOHNSON : " It is rarely well executed . They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man ...
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... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ; * and he was much . pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ; * and he was much . pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
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... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
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... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation was not less pleasing than surprising . * A ...
... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation was not less pleasing than surprising . * A ...
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Página 585 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 950 - ... 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.
Página 717 - 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.
Página 646 - Pray give me leave, Sir; — It is better here — A little of the brown— Some fat, Sir— A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter— Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange ; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — " Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Página 942 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 562 - Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
Página 950 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one. better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. 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 and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Página 848 - 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.
Página 582 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Página 752 - Johnson should forbid me to drink tea, I would comply, as I should feel the restraint only twice a day; but little variations in narrative must happen a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching.' JOHNSON. 'Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.