The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A Reprint of the First Edition, to which are Added Mr. Boswell's Corrections and Aditions, Issued in 1792; the Variations of the Second Edition, with Some of the Author's Notes Prepared for the Third, 2권S. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1900 |
도서 본문에서
52개의 결과 중 1 - 5개
9 페이지
... excellent instance would it have been of the oppression of booksellers towards poor au- thours ! " ( smiling ) . Davies , zealous for the honour of the Trade , said , Gardner was not properly a bookseller . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir ; he ...
... excellent instance would it have been of the oppression of booksellers towards poor au- thours ! " ( smiling ) . Davies , zealous for the honour of the Trade , said , Gardner was not properly a bookseller . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir ; he ...
13 페이지
... excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . after the publication of my " Account of Corsica , " he did me the honour to call on me , and ...
... excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . after the publication of my " Account of Corsica , " he did me the honour to call on me , and ...
64 페이지
... excellent dissertation on general principles of morals and law . " A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family settlement , which I had read . 1 Mistake for 1776 . I wrote to Dr. Johnson on the 20th of February 64 THE LIFE ...
... excellent dissertation on general principles of morals and law . " A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family settlement , which I had read . 1 Mistake for 1776 . I wrote to Dr. Johnson on the 20th of February 64 THE LIFE ...
76 페이지
... excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other reason but that there might be a direct road to a new bridge ; and his expression ...
... excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other reason but that there might be a direct road to a new bridge ; and his expression ...
80 페이지
... excellent dinner there , with the Master and Fellows , it being St. Cuthbert's day , which is kept by them as a festival , as he was a saint of Durham , with which this College is much connected . We drank tea with Dr. Horne , President ...
... excellent dinner there , with the Master and Fellows , it being St. Cuthbert's day , which is kept by them as a festival , as he was a saint of Durham , with which this College is much connected . We drank tea with Dr. Horne , President ...
자주 나오는 단어 및 구문
acquaintance Ad.-Line admirable affectionate appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk Beggars Opera believe Bishop Boswell's Burke character conversation Court of Session Croker dear Sir death Dilly dined dinner drink eminent entertained et Ad.-Line favour Garrick gentleman give glad happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind lady Langton learning letter Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick put the following recollect remark Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Whig Wilkes wine wish wonderful write written wrote
인기 인용구
465 페이지 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
216 페이지 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
497 페이지 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
428 페이지 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
156 페이지 - Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription.
463 페이지 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
145 페이지 - Pray give me leave, Sir : — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
84 페이지 - There is no private house (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever [so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every...
224 페이지 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
321 페이지 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless...