The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Volumen101835 |
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... told what I then said . " The latter speech of Johnson denotes a delicacy in him , and an unwillingness to offend ; and it evinces a part of his character , which he has not had the credit of having ever possessed . 482. " Venice ...
... told what I then said . " The latter speech of Johnson denotes a delicacy in him , and an unwillingness to offend ; and it evinces a part of his character , which he has not had the credit of having ever possessed . 482. " Venice ...
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... . Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction , that I have no money , and that I have had an uncle hanged . " She replied , that she - 66 valued no one more or less for his descent ; 10 JOHNSONIANA .
... . Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction , that I have no money , and that I have had an uncle hanged . " She replied , that she - 66 valued no one more or less for his descent ; 10 JOHNSONIANA .
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... told such a story , but that she had not even ever heard of it . Notwithstanding this denial , Miss Seward persisted in her story to the last . The report as to the hanging was probably derived from a coarse passage in the Rev. Donald M ...
... told such a story , but that she had not even ever heard of it . Notwithstanding this denial , Miss Seward persisted in her story to the last . The report as to the hanging was probably derived from a coarse passage in the Rev. Donald M ...
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... told thee Aston was handsome , thy mother told thee truth : she was very handsome . When thy mother told thee that Aston loved to abuse her neighbours , she told thee truth ; but when thy mother told thee that Aston had any marked ...
... told thee Aston was handsome , thy mother told thee truth : she was very handsome . When thy mother told thee that Aston loved to abuse her neighbours , she told thee truth ; but when thy mother told thee that Aston had any marked ...
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... told me truth when he said , she had more colloquial wit than most of our literary women : it is indeed a fountain of perpetual flow . But he did not tell me truth when he asserted that Piozzi was an ugly dog , without particular skill ...
... told me truth when he said , she had more colloquial wit than most of our literary women : it is indeed a fountain of perpetual flow . But he did not tell me truth when he asserted that Piozzi was an ugly dog , without particular skill ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 90 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Página 149 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 92 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 94 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Página 71 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Página 179 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Página 79 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Página 231 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Página 77 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Página 64 - Magazine, with a professed intention to point out the pieces which he had written in that collection. The books lay on the table, with many leaves doubled down, and in particular those which contained his share in the Parliamentary Debates.