The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576페이지 |
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... asked his old schoolfellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' She had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's valne . ' Her piety was not inferior to her un- derstanding ...
... asked his old schoolfellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' She had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's valne . ' Her piety was not inferior to her un- derstanding ...
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... asked if he could remember Queen Anne , ' He had , ' he said , ' a confused but some- how a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . ' This touch , however , was without any effect . I ven- tured to ...
... asked if he could remember Queen Anne , ' He had , ' he said , ' a confused but some- how a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . ' This touch , however , was without any effect . I ven- tured to ...
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... asked me why I had not attended . I answered , I had been sliding in Christ Church meadow ; and this I said with as much nonchalance as I am now talking to you . I had no notion that I was wrong or ir- reverent to my tutor . ' BOSWELL ...
... asked me why I had not attended . I answered , I had been sliding in Christ Church meadow ; and this I said with as much nonchalance as I am now talking to you . I had no notion that I was wrong or ir- reverent to my tutor . ' BOSWELL ...
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... asked me to write him some verses that he might present her in return . I pro- mised , but forgot ; and when he called for his lines at the time agreed on , " Sit still a moment , " says I , " dear Mund , and I'll fetch them thee ; " so ...
... asked me to write him some verses that he might present her in return . I pro- mised , but forgot ; and when he called for his lines at the time agreed on , " Sit still a moment , " says I , " dear Mund , and I'll fetch them thee ; " so ...
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... asked the maid if her mistress was at home . She answered , Yes , sir , but she is sick in bed . " " Oh , " says he , " if it's so , tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did ; " and was going away . The maid begged she ...
... asked the maid if her mistress was at home . She answered , Yes , sir , but she is sick in bed . " " Oh , " says he , " if it's so , tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did ; " and was going away . The maid begged she ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards appear asked believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop character Church consider conversation Court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet published racter Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Williams wish write written wrote
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72 페이지 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
72 페이지 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. 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...
429 페이지 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
72 페이지 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
83 페이지 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
127 페이지 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
117 페이지 - I do not believe there is anything of this carelessness in his books. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
410 페이지 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
72 페이지 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
11 페이지 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.