The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Band 4J. Murray, 1831 |
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... pleasure in walking about Derby , such as I always have in walking about any town to which I am not accustomed . There is an immediate sensa- tion of novelty ; and one speculates on the way in which life is passed in it , which ...
... pleasure in walking about Derby , such as I always have in walking about any town to which I am not accustomed . There is an immediate sensa- tion of novelty ; and one speculates on the way in which life is passed in it , which ...
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... information , accuracy , and good narrative . Indeed the age in which we live is eminently distinguished by topographical excellence . - BOSWELL . art , and the pleasures of life , because life 12 1777. - ÆTAT . 68 .
... information , accuracy , and good narrative . Indeed the age in which we live is eminently distinguished by topographical excellence . - BOSWELL . art , and the pleasures of life , because life 12 1777. - ÆTAT . 68 .
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... pleasures of life , because life is uncertain and short ; but to consider such indifference as a failure of reason , a morbidness of mind ; for happi- ness should be cultivated as much as we can , and the objects which are instrumental ...
... pleasures of life , because life is uncertain and short ; but to consider such indifference as a failure of reason , a morbidness of mind ; for happi- ness should be cultivated as much as we can , and the objects which are instrumental ...
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... pleasure which I was unwilling to give up . " Why , sir , " said he , " there is no doubt that not to drink wine is a great deduction from life : but it may be necessary . " He however owned , that in his opinion a free use of wine did ...
... pleasure which I was unwilling to give up . " Why , sir , " said he , " there is no doubt that not to drink wine is a great deduction from life : but it may be necessary . " He however owned , that in his opinion a free use of wine did ...
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... pleasures of imagination in preserving us from vice , it is ob- served of those " who know not how to be idle and innocent , " that " their very first step out of business is into vice or folly ; " which Dr. Blair supposed would have ...
... pleasures of imagination in preserving us from vice , it is ob- served of those " who know not how to be idle and innocent , " that " their very first step out of business is into vice or folly ; " which Dr. Blair supposed would have ...
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Seite 465 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
Seite 15 - No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm ; and that I felt all the dulcedo of the natale solum.
Seite 398 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Seite 464 - It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear...
Seite 110 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Seite 238 - I reminded him how heartily he and I used to drink wine together, when we were first acquainted ; and how I used to have a headache after sitting up with him. He did not like to have this recalled, or, perhaps, thinking that I boasted improperly, resolved to have a witty stroke at ine ; " Nay, sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it.
Seite 180 - We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us...
Seite 1 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Seite 426 - I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery. What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
Seite 465 - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way — such as reason teacheth and proveth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.