The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Band 11884 |
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... tell us of his lady till late . " He then spoke of St. Kilda , the most remote of the Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , Sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine ...
... tell us of his lady till late . " He then spoke of St. Kilda , the most remote of the Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , Sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine ...
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... tell you they will not be believed , is meanness . Macaulay acted with more magnanimity . ” We talked of the Roman Catholic religion , and how little difference there was in essential matters between ours and it . JOHNSON . " True , Sir ...
... tell you they will not be believed , is meanness . Macaulay acted with more magnanimity . ” We talked of the Roman Catholic religion , and how little difference there was in essential matters between ours and it . JOHNSON . " True , Sir ...
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... tell him when he is wrong ; nor does he choose to be told . Sir , when people watch me narrowly , and I do not watch myself , they will find me out to be of a particular county . In the same manner , Dunning ' may be found out to be a ...
... tell him when he is wrong ; nor does he choose to be told . Sir , when people watch me narrowly , and I do not watch myself , they will find me out to be of a particular county . In the same manner , Dunning ' may be found out to be a ...
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... tell me all the little circum- stances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , & c . & c . He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , " They'll come out ...
... tell me all the little circum- stances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , & c . & c . He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , " They'll come out ...
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... tell you how little I have to tell . Of myself I can only add , that having been afflicted many weeks with a very troublesome cough , I am now recovered . " I take the liberty which you give me of troubling you with a letter , of which ...
... tell you how little I have to tell . Of myself I can only add , that having been afflicted many weeks with a very troublesome cough , I am now recovered . " I take the liberty which you give me of troubling you with a letter , of which ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 190 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 433 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Seite 171 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Seite 316 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Seite 344 - Pray give me leave, Sir; — It is better here — A little of the brown— Some fat, Sir— A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter— Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange ; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — " Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Seite 62 - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
Seite 349 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.
Seite 134 - What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still.- For this opinion I have given my reasons to the publick, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals, inclines me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but to what you shall prove. You may print this if you will.
Seite 35 - 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 with a black lead pencil.
Seite 332 - Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth is, that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of buildings in London.