Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página xxi
... was completed by his son . Johnson coupled him for learning with Bentley , but used to warn Boswell against his unorthodoxy , though he afterwards changed his mind on this point . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . I at last deliver.
... was completed by his son . Johnson coupled him for learning with Bentley , but used to warn Boswell against his unorthodoxy , though he afterwards changed his mind on this point . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . I at last deliver.
Página xxiii
... learning , was an excel- lent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excel- lent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
Página 5
... Learning , Book Latin scholar , and a citizen so creditable as to be made one of the magistrates of Lichfield4 ; and being a man of good sense , and skill in his trade , he acquired a reasonale share of wealth , of which , however , he ...
... Learning , Book Latin scholar , and a citizen so creditable as to be made one of the magistrates of Lichfield4 ; and being a man of good sense , and skill in his trade , he acquired a reasonale share of wealth , of which , however , he ...
Página 19
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called " a fine Jacobite fellow , " over- heard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called " a fine Jacobite fellow , " over- heard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
Página 28
... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferior powers of mind . His own ac- quisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions in the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would be ...
... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferior powers of mind . His own ac- quisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions in the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would be ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop booksellers called character Church compliments consider conversation Croker DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Stuart humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter Madam manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise published reason recollect remark Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland shew Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Warton Whig wish write written wrote دو