The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen5G. Routledge and Sons, 1885 |
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... nature in many parts of this country : he will meet with many persons here who respect him , and some whom I am persuaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . I wish he would make the experiment . He sometimes cracks his jokes ...
... nature in many parts of this country : he will meet with many persons here who respect him , and some whom I am persuaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . I wish he would make the experiment . He sometimes cracks his jokes ...
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... nature of that distemper called " St. Vitus's dance . " He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes , with twisted - hair - buttons of the same colour , a large bushy greyish wig , a plain shirt , black worsted stockings , and silver ...
... nature of that distemper called " St. Vitus's dance . " He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes , with twisted - hair - buttons of the same colour , a large bushy greyish wig , a plain shirt , black worsted stockings , and silver ...
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... nature , that his figure was not horrid . Her fondness for him endeared her still more to me , and I declared she should have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . 1 The saint's name of Veronica was introduced into our family ...
... nature , that his figure was not horrid . Her fondness for him endeared her still more to me , and I declared she should have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . 1 The saint's name of Veronica was introduced into our family ...
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... nature of human frailty will permit . " Let Dr. Smith consider ; was not Mr. Hume blessed with good health , good spirits , good friends , a competent and increasing fortune ? And had he not also a perpetual feast of fame ? But , as a ...
... nature of human frailty will permit . " Let Dr. Smith consider ; was not Mr. Hume blessed with good health , good spirits , good friends , a competent and increasing fortune ? And had he not also a perpetual feast of fame ? But , as a ...
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... Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought , but ne'er so well expressed but surprising allusions , brilliant sallies of vivacity , and pleasant conceits . His speeches in Parliament are strewn with them . Take , for instance ...
... Nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought , but ne'er so well expressed but surprising allusions , brilliant sallies of vivacity , and pleasant conceits . His speeches in Parliament are strewn with them . Take , for instance ...
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Página 15 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 357 - O ! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful. I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live tomorrow.
Página 86 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Página 16 - Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary man.
Página 20 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 147 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Página 204 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 30 - He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Página 12 - a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
Página 256 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...