The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volumen21831 |
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... wrote the following account , which he has been pleased to communicate to me : " The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an an- nuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in ...
... wrote the following account , which he has been pleased to communicate to me : " The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an an- nuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in ...
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... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an advocate , as is the custom in ...
... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an advocate , as is the custom in ...
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... wrote it before she was ac- quainted with me ; but she has not told you that I wrote it all over again , except two lines . " " The Fountains t , " a beautiful little fairy tale in prose , written with exquisite simplicity , is one of ...
... wrote it before she was ac- quainted with me ; but she has not told you that I wrote it all over again , except two lines . " " The Fountains t , " a beautiful little fairy tale in prose , written with exquisite simplicity , is one of ...
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... wrote this year a letter , not intended for pub- lication , which has , perhaps , as strong marks of his sentiment and style , as any of his compositions . The original is in my possession . It is addressed to the late Mr. William ...
... wrote this year a letter , not intended for pub- lication , which has , perhaps , as strong marks of his sentiment and style , as any of his compositions . The original is in my possession . It is addressed to the late Mr. William ...
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... wrote me word of their situation some time ago , to which I returned them an answer which raised hopes of more than it is proper for me to give them . Their representation of their affairs I have discovered to be such as This paragraph ...
... wrote me word of their situation some time ago , to which I returned them an answer which raised hopes of more than it is proper for me to give them . Their representation of their affairs I have discovered to be such as This paragraph ...
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards ancient answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour believe BENNET LANGTON BOSWELL called character church conversation dear dined dinner doubt Dunvegan Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father favour Flora Macdonald Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy Hebrid Highland honour hope humble servant island James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson king Kingsburgh lady Laird land Langton late learning letter Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo LUCY PORTER M'Queen Macleod Malcolm manner married mentioned mind Monboddo never night observed occasion opinion perhaps person Piozzi pleased poem Portree prayer Prince Prince Charles probably publick Rasay reason Samuel Johnson Scotland SCOTT seems Shakspeare Sir Alexander Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tour wish write wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 126 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Página 257 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Página 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Página 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Página 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Página 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Página 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Página 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Página 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.