The Journal of a Tour to the Herbrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, Relative to the Tour, and Never Before Published; a Series of His Conversation, Literary Anecdotes and Opinions of Men and Books; with an Authentic Account of the Distresses and Escapes of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852 - 361페이지 |
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Aberdeen afterwards Allan Maclean ancient appearance asked Auchinleck believe better boat Boswell breakfast called Campbell castle chief church clan conversation Corrichatachin daughter died dinner Donald Duke Dunvegan Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give Glenmoriston Grugach Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Inchkenneth Inverary Inverness island Isle James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey King Kingsburgh knew Lady laird land Lawrence Kirk learned lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Lord Monboddo Macaulay Mackenzie Mackinnon Maclean Macleod Macqueen Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree Prince Charles Rasay remark Samuel Johnson Scotland Scottish servant Sir Alexander Sir Allan Skye spirit Talisker talked tell tenants things thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took walked write young
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58 페이지 - Greece, Italy, and England did adorn: The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two." and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford,*
94 페이지 - actually in it. it perfectly corresponds with Shakspeare's description, which Sir Joshua Reynolds has so happily illustrated, in one of his notes on our immortal poet : " This castle hath a pleasant seat : the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses,
166 페이지 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his
103 페이지 - did not choose to continue in it longer than nine months, after which time he got off.—JOHNSON : " Why, sir, no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol ; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned.
265 페이지 - holds her stale, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's hand,
300 페이지 - to correct a mistaken account that has been circulated, as to his conversation this day. It has been said, that being desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castle-hill, he replied, " Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London."—This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a
105 페이지 - sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky crihs,
5 페이지 - had always been somewhat weak ; yet, so much does mind govern, and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his perceptions were uncommonly quick and accurate. His head, and sometimes also his body, shook with a kind of motion like the effect of a palsy ; he appeared to be frequently disturbed by cramps, or convulsive contractions,!
1 페이지 - Journey," that he scarcely remembered how the wish to visit the Hebrides was excited ; but he told me, in summer, 1763, that his father put Martin's Account into his hands when he was very young, and that he was much pleased with it. We reckoned there would be some inconveniences and hardships, and perhaps a.
223 페이지 - So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, smothered in the dusty