boswell's life of johnson |
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... allowed to live familiarly with an eminent man . Least regarded of the three is the author . It is his part to introduce the others , and to develop between them an ac- quaintance , perhaps a friendship , while he , though ever busy and ...
... allowed to live familiarly with an eminent man . Least regarded of the three is the author . It is his part to introduce the others , and to develop between them an ac- quaintance , perhaps a friendship , while he , though ever busy and ...
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... allowed , was a singular beginning of con- nubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life : and ...
... allowed , was a singular beginning of con- nubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life : and ...
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... allowed ten pounds for clothes and linen . He said a man might live in a garret at eighteen - pence a week ; few people would inquire where he lodged ; and if they did , it was easy to say , " Sir , I am to be found at such a place ...
... allowed ten pounds for clothes and linen . He said a man might live in a garret at eighteen - pence a week ; few people would inquire where he lodged ; and if they did , it was easy to say , " Sir , I am to be found at such a place ...
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... allow , that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resistance with which it is fraught , had no just cause . ' There was , in truth , no ' oppression ; ' the ' na- tion ' was not ' cheated . ' Sir Robert Walpole was a wise and a ...
... allow , that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resistance with which it is fraught , had no just cause . ' There was , in truth , no ' oppression ; ' the ' na- tion ' was not ' cheated . ' Sir Robert Walpole was a wise and a ...
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... allow it very high praise . It has been ascribed to Mr. Garrick , from its appearing at first with the signature G ; but I have heard Mr. Garrick declare , that it was written by Dr. Johnson , and give the following account of the man ...
... allow it very high praise . It has been ascribed to Mr. Garrick , from its appearing at first with the signature G ; but I have heard Mr. Garrick declare , that it was written by Dr. Johnson , and give the following account of the man ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards agreeable answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better bookseller BOSWELL Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink eminent entertained favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh learning 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 Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks truth walked Whig Wilkes wine wish wonder write written wrote young
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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.
16 페이지 - When at Oxford I took up 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 enquiry.
253 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
553 페이지 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
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.
64 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. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of...
95 페이지 - I now felt myself much mortified, and began to think that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted. And, in truth, had not my ardour been uncommonly strong, and my resolution uncommonly persevering, so rough a reception might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited ; and was soon rewarded by hearing some of his conversation, of which I preserved the following short minute,...
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.
548 페이지 - I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
94 페이지 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.