March 19, 1776-Dec. 13, 1784I. Pitman, 1907 |
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... happy thought , has added explanatory notes , which form a new and valuable commentary to the best - loved English classic . The book is beautifully produced , and has only to be seen to be bought . " - Bookman . " The most fully and ...
... happy thought , has added explanatory notes , which form a new and valuable commentary to the best - loved English classic . The book is beautifully produced , and has only to be seen to be bought . " - Bookman . " The most fully and ...
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... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON : " To be sure not , Sir . I believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON : " To be sure not , Sir . I believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
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... happy hours in Johnson's early life . Mr. Seward had , with ecclesiastical hospitality and politeness , asked me in the morning , merely as a stranger , to dine with him ; and in the afternoon , when I was introduced to him , he asked ...
... happy hours in Johnson's early life . Mr. Seward had , with ecclesiastical hospitality and politeness , asked me in the morning , merely as a stranger , to dine with him ; and in the afternoon , when I was introduced to him , he asked ...
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... happy to see Dr. Johnson sitting in a conspicuous part of the pit , and receiving affectionate homage from all his acquaintance . We were quite gay and merry . I afterwards mentioned to him that I condemned myself for being so , when ...
... happy to see Dr. Johnson sitting in a conspicuous part of the pit , and receiving affectionate homage from all his acquaintance . We were quite gay and merry . I afterwards mentioned to him that I condemned myself for being so , when ...
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... happy to think that he lived to see the crown at last recover its just influence . * At Leicester , we read in the newspaper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old schoolfellow , and one with whom he had lived a ...
... happy to think that he lived to see the crown at last recover its just influence . * At Leicester , we read in the newspaper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old schoolfellow , and one with whom he had lived a ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 1054 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Página 583 - 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 732 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says, 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Página 922 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 940 - 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 846 - 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 948 - ... 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.
Página 956 - They are more powerful, sir, than we," answered Imlac, "because they are wiser; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Página 750 - Accustom your children," said he, "constantly to this; if a thing -happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.
Página 718 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.