Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 páginas |
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... House of Commons , and Macaulay plunged at once into the heat of battle . His very first speech in favor of the Reform Bill ( 1831 ) placed him in the front rank of orators . The Speaker sent for him and told him that he had never seen ...
... House of Commons , and Macaulay plunged at once into the heat of battle . His very first speech in favor of the Reform Bill ( 1831 ) placed him in the front rank of orators . The Speaker sent for him and told him that he had never seen ...
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... House of Commons and held important offices , two of them cabi- net offices . But from the time of his sojourn in India , his interest in politics visibly declined , and after 1848 he sel- dom appeared in public life . That which ...
... House of Commons and held important offices , two of them cabi- net offices . But from the time of his sojourn in India , his interest in politics visibly declined , and after 1848 he sel- dom appeared in public life . That which ...
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... House of Lords - the first literary man to receive that distinc- tion . But he never spoke in the House of Lords . For a number of years before his death his health was frail . died at his residence , Holly Lodge , Kensington , December ...
... House of Lords - the first literary man to receive that distinc- tion . But he never spoke in the House of Lords . For a number of years before his death his health was frail . died at his residence , Holly Lodge , Kensington , December ...
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... House of Commons , he wrote : " I ought to tell you that Peel was very civil , and cheered me loudly ; and that impudent , leering Croker congratulated the House on the proof which I had given of my readiness . See whether I do not dust ...
... House of Commons , he wrote : " I ought to tell you that Peel was very civil , and cheered me loudly ; and that impudent , leering Croker congratulated the House on the proof which I had given of my readiness . See whether I do not dust ...
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... House of Commons at me with a leer of hatred which I repay with a gracious smile of pity . " It is evident that a review inspired by this personal quarrel can have little permanent interest , and the first forty paragraphs of the essay ...
... House of Commons at me with a leer of hatred which I repay with a gracious smile of pity . " It is evident that a review inspired by this personal quarrel can have little permanent interest , and the first forty paragraphs of the essay ...
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Página 87 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 83 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 51 - Johnson grown old, Johnson in the fulness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us than any other man in history. Everything about him, his coat, his wig, his figure, his face, his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, .the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...
Página 74 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : "Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose, started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Página 66 - But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Página 65 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Página 77 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 44 - The old philosopher is still among us in the brown coat with the metal buttons and the shirt which ought to be at wash, blinking, puffing, rolling his head, drumming with his fingers, tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in oceans. No human being who has been more than seventy years in the grave is so well known to us. And it is but just to say that our intimate acquaintance with what he would himself have called the anfractuosities of his intellect and of his temper serves only...
Página 9 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him.