The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, 3권1816 |
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... gave the interpretation thus : " It is difficult to speak with propriety of common things ; as , if a poet had to speak of Queen Caroline drinking tea , he must endeavour to avoid the vulgarity of cups and saucers . " But upon reading ...
... gave the interpretation thus : " It is difficult to speak with propriety of common things ; as , if a poet had to speak of Queen Caroline drinking tea , he must endeavour to avoid the vulgarity of cups and saucers . " But upon reading ...
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... gave me much credit for this success- ful negotiation ; and pleasantly said , " that there was nothing equal to it in the whole history of the Corps Diplomatique . " I attended Dr. Johnson home , and had the satis- faction to hear him ...
... gave me much credit for this success- ful negotiation ; and pleasantly said , " that there was nothing equal to it in the whole history of the Corps Diplomatique . " I attended Dr. Johnson home , and had the satis- faction to hear him ...
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... gave occasion to a Remonstrance to the MONARCH OF LITERATURE , for an account of 9 These words must have been in the other copy . They are not in that which was preferred . 1776. which I am indebted to Sir William Forbes , G 2 DR ...
... gave occasion to a Remonstrance to the MONARCH OF LITERATURE , for an account of 9 These words must have been in the other copy . They are not in that which was preferred . 1776. which I am indebted to Sir William Forbes , G 2 DR ...
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... gave the first provocations , and some of them very offen- sive . Let it now be all over . As you have no reason to think that your new mother has shown you any foul play , treat her with respect , and with some de- gree of confidence ...
... gave the first provocations , and some of them very offen- sive . Let it now be all over . As you have no reason to think that your new mother has shown you any foul play , treat her with respect , and with some de- gree of confidence ...
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... gave him an hundred in the spring ; so that he is yet in no difficulties . " Colman has bought Foote's patent , and is to allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on ...
... gave him an hundred in the spring ; so that he is yet in no difficulties . " Colman has bought Foote's patent , and is to allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on ...
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220 페이지 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
196 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.
318 페이지 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
398 페이지 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
377 페이지 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
35 페이지 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
67 페이지 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
66 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.
332 페이지 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
32 페이지 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.