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... conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
... conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
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... blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
... blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
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James Boswell. my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores ...
James Boswell. my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores ...
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... conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars ...
... conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars ...
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... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
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Seite 173 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 172 - ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native...
Seite 172 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Seite 202 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Seite 173 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Seite 281 - Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country ; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, "That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Seite 121 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Seite 332 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 241 - ... to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the...
Seite 205 - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.