Boswell's Life of Johnson, 3권A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... suppose your great work will soon be reprinted , I beg leave to trouble you with a remark on a passage of it , in which I am a little misrepresented . Be not alarmed ; the misrepresentation is not imputable to you . Not having the book ...
... suppose your great work will soon be reprinted , I beg leave to trouble you with a remark on a passage of it , in which I am a little misrepresented . Be not alarmed ; the misrepresentation is not imputable to you . Not having the book ...
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... suppose he meant heresy or immorality . ) He was engaged to dine abroad , and asked me to return to him in the evening at nine , which I accord- ingly did . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams , who told us ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 7.
... suppose he meant heresy or immorality . ) He was engaged to dine abroad , and asked me to return to him in the evening at nine , which I accord- ingly did . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams , who told us ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 7.
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... suppose , was past five - and- twenty before he came to London . ' Upon another occasion I talked to him on this subject , having myself taken some pains to improve my pronunciation , by the aid of the late Mr. Love of Drury Lane ...
... suppose , was past five - and- twenty before he came to London . ' Upon another occasion I talked to him on this subject , having myself taken some pains to improve my pronunciation , by the aid of the late Mr. Love of Drury Lane ...
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... suppose , sir , you are an American . ' ' Why so , sir ? ' ( said his Lordship ) . Because , sir ( replied the shopkeeper ) , you speak neither English nor Scotch , but something different from both , which I conclude is the language of ...
... suppose , sir , you are an American . ' ' Why so , sir ? ' ( said his Lordship ) . Because , sir ( replied the shopkeeper ) , you speak neither English nor Scotch , but something different from both , which I conclude is the language of ...
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... suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable . ' BOSWELL : ' I think , sir , that is a ...
... suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable . ' BOSWELL : ' I think , sir , that is a ...
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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.