Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 Seiten |
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... attention . " Babies do not want , " said he , " to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous ...
... attention . " Babies do not want , " said he , " to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous ...
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... attention from the scholar ; no attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain , and pain is never remembered without resentment . " That something should be learned was , however , so certainly his opinion ...
... attention from the scholar ; no attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain , and pain is never remembered without resentment . " That something should be learned was , however , so certainly his opinion ...
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... attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing him before the usual time , sent him directly to call a favourite workman in the house , to whom she knew he would communicate the conversa- tion ...
... attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing him before the usual time , sent him directly to call a favourite workman in the house , to whom she knew he would communicate the conversa- tion ...
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... attention , and thought about Tom Thumb . " 37. Modern Politics . Modern politics fared no better . I was one time extoll- ing the character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents ...
... attention , and thought about Tom Thumb . " 37. Modern Politics . Modern politics fared no better . I was one time extoll- ing the character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents ...
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... attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher denun- ciation : " That woman , " cries Johnson , " is like sour small beer , the beverage of her table , and produce of the wretched country she lives in ; like that ...
... attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher denun- ciation : " That woman , " cries Johnson , " is like sour small beer , the beverage of her table , and produce of the wretched country she lives in ; like that ...
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acquaintance ANECDOTES answer appeared asked Bennet Langton better Bolt Court Boswell Boswell's Brocklesby Burke Burney called character Charles Burney conversation Corsica David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor father favour Frank Barber Garrick genius gentleman give hand Hawkins hear heard honour Hoole hope humour James Boswell Johnson kind knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived look Lord Lucy Porter madam manner mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion Parr perhaps person Piozzi pleasure Poets Pozz praise prayer racter Rambler recollect religion remark replied Samuel Johnson Sastres Scotland seemed Seward Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Strahan Streatham sure talk tell thing thou thought Thrale tion told took truth virtue Whig wish words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 387 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Seite 464 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 26 - We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age...
Seite 388 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
Seite 437 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Seite 379 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Seite 464 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Seite 26 - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Seite 372 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Seite 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.