Selections from Boswell's Life of JohnsonCharles E. Merrill Company, 1912 - 93페이지 |
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... called Bishop , which Johnson had always liked ; while in joyous contempt of sleep , from which he had been roused , he repeated the festive lines , " Short , O short then be thy reign , And give us to the world again . " They did not ...
... called Bishop , which Johnson had always liked ; while in joyous contempt of sleep , from which he had been roused , he repeated the festive lines , " Short , O short then be thy reign , And give us to the world again . " They did not ...
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... called on him after his Majesty's intention had been noti- fied to him , and said he wished to consult his friends as to the propriety of his accepting this mark of the royal favour , after the definitions which he had 28 BOSWELL'S LIFE ...
... called on him after his Majesty's intention had been noti- fied to him , and said he wished to consult his friends as to the propriety of his accepting this mark of the royal favour , after the definitions which he had 28 BOSWELL'S LIFE ...
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... called on Davies , and asked him if he thought I might take the liberty of waiting on Mr. Johnson at his chambers in the Temple . He said I certainly might , and that Mr. Johnson would take it as a compliment . So upon Tuesday the 24th ...
... called on Davies , and asked him if he thought I might take the liberty of waiting on Mr. Johnson at his chambers in the Temple . He said I certainly might , and that Mr. Johnson would take it as a compliment . So upon Tuesday the 24th ...
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... called chewing the cud , sometimes giving half a whistle , sometimes making his tongue play backwards from the roof of his mouth , as if clucking like a hen , and sometimes protruding it against his upper gums in front , as if ...
... called chewing the cud , sometimes giving half a whistle , sometimes making his tongue play backwards from the roof of his mouth , as if clucking like a hen , and sometimes protruding it against his upper gums in front , as if ...
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... called on him about half an hour before dinner , as I often did when we were to dine out together , to see that he was ready in time , and to accompany him . I found him buffeting his books , as upon a former occasion , covered with ...
... called on him about half an hour before dinner , as I often did when we were to dine out together , to see that he was ready in time , and to accompany him . I found him buffeting his books , as upon a former occasion , covered with ...
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22 페이지 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of...
26 페이지 - Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to Him. COME unto me all that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.
31 페이지 - At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davies, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop ; and Mr.
18 페이지 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English stile, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
64 페이지 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, 'Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?' he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, 'Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
52 페이지 - Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
36 페이지 - He had no doubt a more than common share of that hurry of ideas which we often find in his countrymen, and which sometimes produces a laughable confusion in expressing them.
33 페이지 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for, with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression, "come from Scotland...
40 페이지 - Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
35 페이지 - ... readers in some degree acquainted with his singular character. He was a native of Ireland, and a contemporary with Mr. Burke, at Trinity College, Dublin, but did not then give much promise of future celebrity.