The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... Wilkes , Esq . Two men more different could perhaps not be selected out of all mankind . ) They had even attacked one another with some asperity in their writings ; yet I lived in habits of friend- ship with both . I could fully relish ...
... Wilkes , Esq . Two men more different could perhaps not be selected out of all mankind . ) They had even attacked one another with some asperity in their writings ; yet I lived in habits of friend- ship with both . I could fully relish ...
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... Wilkes together . How to manage it , was a nice and difficult matter . My worthy booksellers and friends , Messieurs ... Wilkes and some more gentlemen , on Wednesday , May 15. " Pray ( said I , ) let us have Dr. Johnson . " - " What ...
... Wilkes together . How to manage it , was a nice and difficult matter . My worthy booksellers and friends , Messieurs ... Wilkes and some more gentlemen , on Wednesday , May 15. " Pray ( said I , ) let us have Dr. Johnson . " - " What ...
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... Wilkes there . " JOHNSON . " And if Jack Wilkes should be there , what is that to me , Sir ? My dear friend , let us have no more of this . I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I ...
... Wilkes there . " JOHNSON . " And if Jack Wilkes should be there , what is that to me , Sir ? My dear friend , let us have no more of this . I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I ...
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... Wilkes , Sir . " This information confounded him still more ; he had some difficulty to restrain himself , and taking up a book , sat down upon a window - seat and read , or at least kept his eye upon it intently for some time , till he ...
... Wilkes , Sir . " This information confounded him still more ; he had some difficulty to restrain himself , and taking up a book , sat down upon a window - seat and read , or at least kept his eye upon it intently for some time , till he ...
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... Wilkes placed himself next to Dr. Johnson , and behaved to him with so much attention and politeness , that he gained upon him insensibly . No man eat more heartily than Johnson , or loved better what was nice and delicate . Mr. Wilkes ...
... Wilkes placed himself next to Dr. Johnson , and behaved to him with so much attention and politeness , that he gained upon him insensibly . No man eat more heartily than Johnson , or loved better what was nice and delicate . Mr. Wilkes ...
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Seite 381 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 596 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 527 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Seite 269 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Seite 388 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Seite 387 - ... 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.
Seite 276 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Seite 378 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Seite 365 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.