Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574페이지 |
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... lived , of actual achievements or shortcomings , of success or failure ; it is not imaginary and embellished , not what might be or might have been , not reduced to prescribed or artificial forms , but it is the unvarnished story of ...
... lived , of actual achievements or shortcomings , of success or failure ; it is not imaginary and embellished , not what might be or might have been , not reduced to prescribed or artificial forms , but it is the unvarnished story of ...
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... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be sup- posed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be sup- posed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
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... advanced in years when they married , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record , and.
... advanced in years when they married , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record , and.
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... He had already given several proofs of his poetical genius , both in his school - exercises and in other occasional compositions . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he.
... He had already given several proofs of his poetical genius , both in his school - exercises and in other occasional compositions . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he.
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James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner , without any scheme of study , as chance threw books in his way , and inclination directed him through them . He ...
James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner , without any scheme of study , as chance threw books in his way , and inclination directed him through them . He ...
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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.