The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Հատոր 21831 |
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Արդյունքներ 91–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... asked him whether he had ever submitted to it . JOHNSON . " Why , sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ...
... asked him whether he had ever submitted to it . JOHNSON . " Why , sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ...
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... asked what ground he had for such imaginations , he replied , “ That a young lady once told him in confidence , that she could never persuade herself to be dressed against the bell rung for dinner , till she had made a vow to heaven ...
... asked what ground he had for such imaginations , he replied , “ That a young lady once told him in confidence , that she could never persuade herself to be dressed against the bell rung for dinner , till she had made a vow to heaven ...
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... asked Mrs. Williams whether it was not his . " Sir , " said she , with some warmth , " I wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . " I , however , was so much impressed with my first notion , that I ...
... asked Mrs. Williams whether it was not his . " Sir , " said she , with some warmth , " I wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . " I , however , was so much impressed with my first notion , that I ...
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... asked him if he was not fond of going thither . To which Johnson answered , that he was indeed fond of going to Oxford sometimes , but was likewise glad to come back again . The king then asked him what they were doing at Oxford . The ...
... asked him if he was not fond of going thither . To which Johnson answered , that he was indeed fond of going to Oxford sometimes , but was likewise glad to come back again . The king then asked him what they were doing at Oxford . The ...
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... asked whether there were better libraries at Oxford or Cambridge . He answered , he believed the Bodleian was larger than any they had at Cam- bridge ; at the same time adding , " I hope , whether we have more books or not than they ...
... asked whether there were better libraries at Oxford or Cambridge . He answered , he believed the Bodleian was larger than any they had at Cam- bridge ; at the same time adding , " I hope , whether we have more books or not than they ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.