Boswell's Life of Johnson, 3권A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... pleased to send to Mr. Banks , whose place of residence I do not know , this note , which I have sent open , that , if you please , you may read it . ' When you send it do not use your own seal . — I am , sir , your most humble servant ...
... pleased to send to Mr. Banks , whose place of residence I do not know , this note , which I have sent open , that , if you please , you may read it . ' When you send it do not use your own seal . — I am , sir , your most humble servant ...
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... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not spirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will cost three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it cost but a penny . I then reminded him ...
... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not spirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will cost three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it cost but a penny . I then reminded him ...
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... painful , but he soon made me forget it ; and a man is always pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclina- tions predominate . He observed , that to reason philosophically on the nature ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 35.
... painful , but he soon made me forget it ; and a man is always pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclina- tions predominate . He observed , that to reason philosophically on the nature ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 35.
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... pleased to call this a well - drawn paper , ' preferred the former very inferior petition which I had written ; thus con- firming the truth of an observation made to me by one of their number in a merry mood : My dear sir , give ...
... pleased to call this a well - drawn paper , ' preferred the former very inferior petition which I had written ; thus con- firming the truth of an observation made to me by one of their number in a merry mood : My dear sir , give ...
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... pleased to honour me with very high praise of my Life of Dr. Johnson . To have the fame of my illustrious friend , and his faithful biographer , echoed from the New World is extremely flattering ; and my grateful acknowledgments shall ...
... pleased to honour me with very high praise of my Life of Dr. Johnson . To have the fame of my illustrious friend , and his faithful biographer , echoed from the New World is extremely flattering ; and my grateful acknowledgments shall ...
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263 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.
263 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.
44 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.
263 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.
237 페이지 - For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
87 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.
109 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.
45 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.