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... Church meadows , and missed his lecture in logic . After dinner , he sent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke for my idleness , and went with a beating heart . When we were seated , he told me he had sent for me to drink a ...
... Church meadows , and missed his lecture in logic . After dinner , he sent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke for my idleness , and went with a beating heart . When we were seated , he told me he had sent for me to drink a ...
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James Boswell. prance , he must study at Christ Church and All Souls . " Somebody found fault with writing verses in a dead language , maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the universities of ...
James Boswell. prance , he must study at Christ Church and All Souls . " Somebody found fault with writing verses in a dead language , maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the universities of ...
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... churches and par- sonage - houses ; however , " said he , " I do not find that he is esteemed a man of such professional learning , or a liberal patron of it ; yet it is well where a man possesses any strong positive excel- lence . Few ...
... churches and par- sonage - houses ; however , " said he , " I do not find that he is esteemed a man of such professional learning , or a liberal patron of it ; yet it is well where a man possesses any strong positive excel- lence . Few ...
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... church upon the nuptial morn , ( the 9th of July , 1736 ) : - " Sir , she had read the old romances , and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog . So , sir , at first she told ...
... church upon the nuptial morn , ( the 9th of July , 1736 ) : - " Sir , she had read the old romances , and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog . So , sir , at first she told ...
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... church into atoms , and consider any single atom ; it is , to be sure , good for nothing : but put all these atoms together , and you have St. Paul's church . So it is with human felicity , which is made up of many ingredients , each of ...
... church into atoms , and consider any single atom ; it is , to be sure , good for nothing : but put all these atoms together , and you have St. Paul's church . So it is with human felicity , which is made up of many ingredients , each of ...
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Johnsoniana: From Boswell's Life of the Great Lexicographer and Moralist Sin vista previa disponible - 2020 |
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appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Boswell mentioned Boswell talked Burney character church Colley Cibber common consider conversation dine drinking eminent England fellow Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour house of lords human humour instance Jacobite John Johnson observed judge king king of Prussia knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary live London lord Lord Bute lord Chesterfield lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo madam mankind manner marriage mean merit mind moral nation never occasion once opinion pleased poem poor racter religion remark Robert Dodsley says Boswell Scotch Scotland sion Sir Joshua Reynolds speak spect spirit strong suppose sure tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies true truth wine wish woman wonder write wrong
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Página 34 - An historian ! My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?
Página 109 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Página 54 - ... notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon...
Página 16 - Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
Página 40 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question.
Página 7 - have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learu, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped — and gets his task — and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Página 161 - I believe they might be good beings; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Página 28 - Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir ?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; and eat it as if he were eating with me. Why, there's Baretti, who is to be tried for his life to-morrow, friends have risen up for him on every side; yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind.
Página 162 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 167 - ... supposing your arguments to be -weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself may convince the judge to whom you urge it ; and if it does convince him, why, then, Sir, you are wrong, and he is right.