Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574페이지 |
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... considering any important matter of his day . His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men . " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it . ' ' Why , Sir , you find no man at all ...
... considering any important matter of his day . His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men . " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it . ' ' Why , Sir , you find no man at all ...
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... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how ear- nestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too ...
... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how ear- nestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too ...
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... considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now , Sir , if a boy could answer every ...
... considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now , Sir , if a boy could answer every ...
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... considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but company . ' One instance of his absence and particularity , as it is characteristick of the man , may be worth relating . When he and I took a journey together into the ...
... considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but company . ' One instance of his absence and particularity , as it is characteristick of the man , may be worth relating . When he and I took a journey together into the ...
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... considered as ' tugging at his oar , ' as engaged in a steady continued course of occupation , sufficient to employ all his time for some years ; and which was the best preventive of that constitutional melancholy which was ever lurking ...
... considered as ' tugging at his oar , ' as engaged in a steady continued course of occupation , sufficient to employ all his time for some years ; and which was the best preventive of that constitutional melancholy which was ever lurking ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better bookseller BOSWELL Brocklesby Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink eminent English entertained favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind morning never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure Poets pounds praise publick recollect Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks truth University of Oxford walked Whig Wilkes wine wish wonderful write written wrote
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64 페이지 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;*— * that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
65 페이지 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
274 페이지 - Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
127 페이지 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
67 페이지 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : ' This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords...
230 페이지 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
207 페이지 - The Way of the World:' ' If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
213 페이지 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
208 페이지 - It did not require much sagacity to foresee that such a sentiment would not be permitted to pass without due animadversion. JOHNSON. " Do not allow yourself, Sir, to be imposed upon by such gross absurdity. It is sad stuff ; it is brutish. If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, — Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman^) who had destroyed himself.
119 페이지 - ... but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.