The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Band 31831 |
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... means used to deceive him , gives me a thing , I am not to let him have it again when he grows wiser . I like to see how avarice defeats itself : how , when avoiding to part with money , the miser gives something more valuable . " Col ...
... means used to deceive him , gives me a thing , I am not to let him have it again when he grows wiser . I like to see how avarice defeats itself : how , when avoiding to part with money , the miser gives something more valuable . " Col ...
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... mean ; but we were agree- ably surprised with the appearance of the master , whom we found to be intelligent , polite , and much a man of the world ' . Though his clan is not nu- merous , he is a very ancient chief , and has a burial ...
... mean ; but we were agree- ably surprised with the appearance of the master , whom we found to be intelligent , polite , and much a man of the world ' . Though his clan is not nu- merous , he is a very ancient chief , and has a burial ...
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... mean the privilege which a lord of a manor or a baron had , to have the first night of all his vassals ' wives . Dr. Johnson said , the belief of such a custom having ex- isted was also held in England , where there is a tenure called ...
... mean the privilege which a lord of a manor or a baron had , to have the first night of all his vassals ' wives . Dr. Johnson said , the belief of such a custom having ex- isted was also held in England , where there is a tenure called ...
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... mean positively to take the other side . I am dubius non improbus . In the evening , Sir Allan informed us that it was the custom of his house to have prayers every Sunday ; and Miss M'Lean read the evening service , in which we all ...
... mean positively to take the other side . I am dubius non improbus . In the evening , Sir Allan informed us that it was the custom of his house to have prayers every Sunday ; and Miss M'Lean read the evening service , in which we all ...
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... mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense , or may mean a voluntary de- gradation of himself . For all my being the great man that you see me now , I was originally a bar- barian ; ' as if Burke should say , ' I came over a wild ...
... mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense , or may mean a voluntary de- gradation of himself . For all my being the great man that you see me now , I was originally a bar- barian ; ' as if Burke should say , ' I came over a wild ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admiration afterwards appears Ashbourne authour Baretti Beggar's Opera believe Boswell's called chapel character church compliments conversation court of session dear sir dined dinner doubt Duke Edinburgh elegant England English entertained Erse father favour France Garrick gentleman give happy heard Hebrid Highlands highwaymen honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth island JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson journey kind king lady Langton learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter madam manner mentioned mind Miss morning never night observed occasion opinion Oxford passage perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure publick recollect remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seems seen Sir Allan Sir Joshua Skie Streatham suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tour travels visited Wales Wilkes wish write written wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 24 - 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.
Seite 350 - 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 311 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.
Seite 456 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Seite 421 - THAT which is appointed to all men is now coming upon you. Outward circumstances, the eyes and the thoughts of men, are below the notice of an immortal being about to stand 'the trial for eternity, before the Supreme Judge of heaven and earth. Be comforted : your crime, morally or religiously considered, has no very deep dye of turpitude. It corrupted no man's principles ; it attacked no man's life. It involved only a temporary and reparable injury.
Seite 244 - The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath...
Seite 276 - ... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Seite 196 - Sir, the Duchess of Northumberland may do what she pleases: nobody will say anything to a lady of her high rank. But I should be apt to throw ***** *'s verses in his face.
Seite 34 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs — a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control ; While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Seite 319 - Fielding's Amelia was the mosT: pleasing heroine of all the romances (he said) ; but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.