Doctor Johnson: A PlayAtlantic Monthly Press, 1923 - 120 páginas The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. |
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... Desmoulins and Levett . They all hate one another ; I alone can order sufficient tranquillity to enable every member of my menagerie , as you call it , to eat their dinner in peace : it was to be a dinner in honour of the com- pletion ...
... Desmoulins and Levett . They all hate one another ; I alone can order sufficient tranquillity to enable every member of my menagerie , as you call it , to eat their dinner in peace : it was to be a dinner in honour of the com- pletion ...
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... Desmoulins and does not love Williams . Desmoulins hates them both . Poll loves none of them . Mr. BOSWELL . I cannot understand , sir , how you can surround yourself with such necessitous and undeserving people . Dr. JOHNSON . Dr ...
... Desmoulins and does not love Williams . Desmoulins hates them both . Poll loves none of them . Mr. BOSWELL . I cannot understand , sir , how you can surround yourself with such necessitous and undeserving people . Dr. JOHNSON . Dr ...
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... IV . Dr. JOHNSON . FRANK . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Mr. HOOLE . MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT . Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Mrs. SIDDONS . Dr. BROCKLESBY . Mr. WINDHAM . Miss BURNEY . Mr. BURKE . YOUNG GIRL . ACT IV . A large room in an old house.
... IV . Dr. JOHNSON . FRANK . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Mr. HOOLE . MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT . Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS . Mrs. SIDDONS . Dr. BROCKLESBY . Mr. WINDHAM . Miss BURNEY . Mr. BURKE . YOUNG GIRL . ACT IV . A large room in an old house.
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... DESMOULINS . They help him to the large chair , propping him up with pillows . Mrs. DESMOULINS . ARE you feeling any easier , sir ? Dr. JOHNSON . I fear my days of ease are over , but I should not complain : he that would live to be old ...
... DESMOULINS . They help him to the large chair , propping him up with pillows . Mrs. DESMOULINS . ARE you feeling any easier , sir ? Dr. JOHNSON . I fear my days of ease are over , but I should not complain : he that would live to be old ...
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... Desmoulins . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Miss Wollstonecraft to sit with you , ACT FOURTH . 103.
... Desmoulins . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Mrs. DESMOULINS . Miss Wollstonecraft to sit with you , ACT FOURTH . 103.
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ALLEN BARCLAY BARETTI Bowing BROCKLESBY BURKE chair Characters in Act comes comfort Davy dear death DELANEY deserve DESMOULINS Dictionary dinner door drink EDWARD NEWTON Elizabeth Carter Enter FRANK Evelina excellent Fanny Fanny Burney Fleet Street Footman announces Garrick gentleman George Dance Gibbon give glad goes GOLDSMITH Gough Square happy hear heard Henry Thrale honour HOOLE hope James Boswell JOHNSON Johnsonians JUDSON Kitty Fisher lady letter LEVETT live London look Lord Chesterfield MACBEAN madam MAITLAND marriage married MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT mind Miss BURNEY Miss STREATFIELD Miss THRALE Miss WOLLSTONECRAFT morning MURPHY never night opens PAOLI play POLL CARMICHAEL portrait RATTLE remember shake hands SIDDONS Signor Piozzi Sir Joshua Reynolds smile speak STEWART Streatham sure talk tell thirty-five thought town WINDHAM wish WOFFINGTON woman word write young
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Página 76 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 24 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 105 - Let us hear, Sir (said Johnson), no general abuse; the law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Página 79 - Marriage is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man, in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Página 82 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Página 49 - Nay, my dear Lady, this will never do. Poor David! Smile with the simple; — What folly is that? And who would feed with the poor that can help it? No, no; let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Página 60 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Página 78 - 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 characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
Página 37 - No, Sir: but we respect a great player, as a man who can conceive lofty sentiments, and can express them gracefully." JOHNSON. "What, Sir, a fellow who claps a hump on his back, and a lump on his leg, and cries, '/ am Richard the Third'?
Página 62 - O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five: For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five: He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five.