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, Volumen91835 |
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... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distinguish the gentleman from the juggler . 14. Anacreon's Dove . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a ...
... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distinguish the gentleman from the juggler . 14. Anacreon's Dove . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a ...
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... kind of con- versation pleased him less , I think , than when the sub- ject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ? " said he : " let us not fancy , like Swift , that we are exalting a woman's cha ...
... kind of con- versation pleased him less , I think , than when the sub- ject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ? " said he : " let us not fancy , like Swift , that we are exalting a woman's cha ...
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... kind of dramatic effect to the general proposition . Swift never dreamt ( as Mrs. Piozzi's report would lead us to think that Johnson supposed ) to advise that our rules of conduct were to be drawn from the actual events of Greek and ...
... kind of dramatic effect to the general proposition . Swift never dreamt ( as Mrs. Piozzi's report would lead us to think that Johnson supposed ) to advise that our rules of conduct were to be drawn from the actual events of Greek and ...
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... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose conversation can just soothe , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose conversation can just soothe , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
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... and that once every body wore them . " See now , " says Johnson , " how absurd that is ; as if the bulk of man- kind consisted of fine gentlemen that came to him to 54 JOHNSONIANA . Avarice, Genius, 218, 298 Gentlemen,
... and that once every body wore them . " See now , " says Johnson , " how absurd that is ; as if the bulk of man- kind consisted of fine gentlemen that came to him to 54 JOHNSONIANA . Avarice, Genius, 218, 298 Gentlemen,
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance ANECDOTES OF DR answer antè asked believe better Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burke Burney called character conversation dear death delight desired dinner Doctor dress Edmund Burke elegance expressed eyes favour favourite fear fellow Frank Barber Garrick gentleman George Psalmanazar give hand Hawkins hear heard heart honour Hoole hope human Jeremiah Markland kind knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield lived look Lord Lord Lyttelton loved Lucy Porter Madam manner Markland mentioned mind morning nature never observed occasion once opinion perhaps person pleased pleasure Poets praise recollect remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson Sastres says Johnson seemed Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak spoke story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told took truth verses virtue Whig wife wish words write
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Página 116 - Never let criticisms operate upon your face or your mind: it is very rarely that an author is hurt by his critics. The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out; but it often dies in the socket: a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
Página 33 - he loved a man the better if he heard he hated a Whig. "Dear Bathurst/' said he to me one day, " was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig ; he was a very good hater." Some one mentioned a gentleman of that party for having
Página 304 - has been here to see me : he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and stayed about a day and a half; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature; and there Windham
Página 126 - Portable Books. DR. JOHNSON used to say, that no man read long together with a folio on his table. " Books/' said he, " that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all." He would say, " such books form the mass of general and easy reading." He was a great friend to books like the French
Página 203 - Those that, imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take some virtue's name." His task, probably, was the whole paragraph, but these lines only were audible. 328. Favourite Verses. He seemed much to delight in reciting verses,
Página 293 - also advised to sleep out of town: and when she was carried to the lodging that had been prepared for her, she complained that the staircase was in very bad condition ; for the plaster was beaten off the walls in many places. " Oh! " said the man of the house,
Página 215 - A second time read o'er; Oh! could we read thee backwards too, Last thirty years thou shouldst review, And charm us thirty more. " If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse.
Página 161 - for Francis, and, after all, a devise of all the rest, residue, and remainder of his estate and effects, to his executors, in trust for the said Francis Barber, his executors and administrators; and having dictated accordingly, Johnson executed and published it as a codicil to his will.
Página 216 - Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I '11 learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite.
Página 275 - was announced. Every body rose to do him honour ; and he returned the attention with the most formal courtesy. My father then, having welcomed him with the warmest respect, whispered to him that music was going forward; which he would not, my father thinks, have found out; and placing him on the