The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... Hebrides , but said he would now content himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said " Ma- caulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudice , and want- ed to be a smart ...
... Hebrides , but said he would now content himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said " Ma- caulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudice , and want- ed to be a smart ...
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... Hebrides ; " where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which he said were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
... Hebrides ; " where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which he said were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
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... Hebrides . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affection , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
... Hebrides . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affection , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
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... Hebrides ; and I hope the time will come when we may try our powers both with cliffs and water . I see but little of Lord Elibank , I know not why ; perhaps by my own fault . I am this day going into Staf- fordshire and Derbyshire for ...
... Hebrides ; and I hope the time will come when we may try our powers both with cliffs and water . I see but little of Lord Elibank , I know not why ; perhaps by my own fault . I am this day going into Staf- fordshire and Derbyshire for ...
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... Hebrides . I told him I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine fish , and we will take some dried tongues with us , and some books . We will have a ...
... Hebrides . I told him I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine fish , and we will take some dried tongues with us , and some books . We will have a ...
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363 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
326 페이지 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
190 페이지 - 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.
213 페이지 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
123 페이지 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
173 페이지 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
323 페이지 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," —" When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
90 페이지 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
260 페이지 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
233 페이지 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.