Boswell's Life of JohnsonC. Scribner's sons, 1917 - 574페이지 |
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... dear friend , ' said he , ' clear your mind of cant ; . . . don't think foolishly . ' The effect of long companionship with Boswell's Johnson is just this . As Sir Joshua said , ' it brushes away the rub- bish ' ; it clears the mind of ...
... dear friend , ' said he , ' clear your mind of cant ; . . . don't think foolishly . ' The effect of long companionship with Boswell's Johnson is just this . As Sir Joshua said , ' it brushes away the rub- bish ' ; it clears the mind of ...
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... DEAR SIR , I had the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before , being long since so much endeared to you , as well by an early friendship , as by ...
... DEAR SIR , I had the favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before , being long since so much endeared to you , as well by an early friendship , as by ...
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... DEAR SIR , You have , as I find by every kind of evidence , lost an excellent mother ; and I hope you will not think me incapable of partaking of your grief . I have a mother , now eighty - two years of age , whom , therefore , I must ...
... DEAR SIR , You have , as I find by every kind of evidence , lost an excellent mother ; and I hope you will not think me incapable of partaking of your grief . I have a mother , now eighty - two years of age , whom , therefore , I must ...
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... dear Sir , your most obliged , most obedient , and most humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The Rambler has increased in fame as in age . Soon after its first folio edition was concluded , it was published in six duodecimo volumes ...
... dear Sir , your most obliged , most obedient , and most humble servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The Rambler has increased in fame as in age . Soon after its first folio edition was concluded , it was published in six duodecimo volumes ...
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... DEAR SIR , -Let me have your company and instruction . Do not live away from me . My distress is great . ' Pray desire Mrs. Taylor to inform me what mourning I should buy for my mother and Miss Porter , and bring a note in writing with ...
... DEAR SIR , -Let me have your company and instruction . Do not live away from me . My distress is great . ' Pray desire Mrs. Taylor to inform me what mourning I should buy for my mother and Miss Porter , and bring a note in writing with ...
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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.
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.
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,
190 페이지 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life ? " JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all
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.
119 페이지 - Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
64 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.
64 페이지 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "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...
107 페이지 - ... him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
339 페이지 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.