Boswell's Life of Johnson, 3권A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... conversation . I could not recollect a motto for your Goat , but have given her 1 Thus translated by a friend : ' In fame scarce second to the nurse of Jove , This Goat , who twice the world had traversed round , Deserving both her ...
... conversation . I could not recollect a motto for your Goat , but have given her 1 Thus translated by a friend : ' In fame scarce second to the nurse of Jove , This Goat , who twice the world had traversed round , Deserving both her ...
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... conversation between wit and buffoonery . ' On Monday , March 23 , I found him busy , prepar- ing a fourth edition of his folio dictionary . Mr. Peyton , one of his original amanuenses , was writing for him . I put him in mind of a ...
... conversation between wit and buffoonery . ' On Monday , March 23 , I found him busy , prepar- ing a fourth edition of his folio dictionary . Mr. Peyton , one of his original amanuenses , was writing for him . I put him in mind of a ...
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... conversation . The General said , that all barbarous nations swore from a certain violence of temper , that could not be confined to earth , but was always reach- ing at the powers above . He said , too , that there was greater variety ...
... conversation . The General said , that all barbarous nations swore from a certain violence of temper , that could not be confined to earth , but was always reach- ing at the powers above . He said , too , that there was greater variety ...
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... conversation now turned on critical subjects . JOHNSON : ' Bayes , in the Rehearsal , is a mighty silly character . If it was intended to be like a parti- cular man , it could only be diverting while that man was remembered . But I ...
... conversation now turned on critical subjects . JOHNSON : ' Bayes , in the Rehearsal , is a mighty silly character . If it was intended to be like a parti- cular man , it could only be diverting while that man was remembered . But I ...
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... conversation with us . Johnson said to me afterwards , ' Sir , this is a mighty intelligent lady . ' I said there was not half a guinea's worth of pleasure in seeing this place . JOHNSON : ' But , sir , there is half a guinea's worth of ...
... conversation with us . Johnson said to me afterwards , ' Sir , this is a mighty intelligent lady . ' I said there was not half a guinea's worth of pleasure in seeing this place . JOHNSON : ' But , sir , there is half a guinea's worth of ...
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acquaintance admiration afraid appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better bookseller brother called character church compliments consider conversation Court Court of Session dear sir DEAR SIR,-I dined Doctor of Medicine edition eminent England English Erse father favour French Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy Hebrides heirs-male honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON Edinburgh judge King lady Langton laugh learned Lichfield live Lloyd London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo madam male manner means ment mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion opinion perhaps pleased poem Raasay reason recollect remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seems Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose talked tavern tell things Thomas Boswell thought Thrale tion told truth wish wonder write written wrote
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261 페이지 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
184 페이지 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
261 페이지 - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.
42 페이지 - Of our friend Goldsmith he said, " Sir, he is so much afraid of being unnoticed, that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in the company." BOSWELL. "Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule." BOSWELL. " For my part, I like very well to hear honest Goldsmith talk away carelessly.
195 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
261 페이지 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
235 페이지 - For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
85 페이지 - Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his History. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool : the wool takes up more room, than the gold.
107 페이지 - ... paid to Johnson. One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. ' Sir,' said he, ' you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.
43 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.