Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 páginas |
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... LONDON . Edited by Professor G. R. Carpenter , of Columbia University . THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS , from " The Spectator . " Edited by D. O. S. Lowell , A.M. , of the Roxbury Latin School , Roxbury , Mass . GOLDSMITH'S THE VICAR ...
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... A.M. ENGLISH MASTER AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ( LAKEVILLE , CONN . ) L Co 1726 NEW YORK LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . LONDON AND BOMBAY 1897 EducT 853.260.540 HARVARD COLLEGE OCT 25 1919 LIBRARY COPYRIGHT , Longmans ' English Classics.
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... London society ; for London soon discovered what Cambridge knew before , that he was one of the most entertaining conversers in the world . 66 The Essay on Milton " was but the beginning of a long series of more than forty articles ...
... London society ; for London soon discovered what Cambridge knew before , that he was one of the most entertaining conversers in the world . 66 The Essay on Milton " was but the beginning of a long series of more than forty articles ...
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... London , " are in Hales's " Longer English Poems . " The Lives of the Poets " may be had in the ten cent National Library ( Cassell Publishing Co. ) , or in the Bohn Library , 3 vols . A selec- tion of the " Six Chief Lives " ( Milton ...
... London , " are in Hales's " Longer English Poems . " The Lives of the Poets " may be had in the ten cent National Library ( Cassell Publishing Co. ) , or in the Bohn Library , 3 vols . A selec- tion of the " Six Chief Lives " ( Milton ...
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... ( London : 1874 ) , and Mr. Leslie Stephen's " Boswell " in the " Dictionary of National Biography . " 3. Eighteenth Century History and Literature . For 66 " " 66 " " political history Gardiner's " xlii SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
... ( London : 1874 ) , and Mr. Leslie Stephen's " Boswell " in the " Dictionary of National Biography . " 3. Eighteenth Century History and Literature . For 66 " " 66 " " political history Gardiner's " xlii SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
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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.