The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volumen 41821 |
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... dined with Dr. Butter , whose lady is daughter of my cousin Sir John Douglas , whose grandson is now presumptive heir of the noble family of Queens- berry . Johnson and he had a good deal of medical conversation . Johnson said , he had ...
... dined with Dr. Butter , whose lady is daughter of my cousin Sir John Douglas , whose grandson is now presumptive heir of the noble family of Queens- berry . Johnson and he had a good deal of medical conversation . Johnson said , he had ...
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... dined with him in London , in a company where were present several eminent men , whom I shall not name , but distinguish their parts in the conversation by different letters . F. " I have been Boking at this famous antique marble dog of ...
... dined with him in London , in a company where were present several eminent men , whom I shall not name , but distinguish their parts in the conversation by different letters . F. " I have been Boking at this famous antique marble dog of ...
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... dined . He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy ( not the Lisbon physician ) . " The cata- strophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime - minister , cas ...
... dined . He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy ( not the Lisbon physician ) . " The cata- strophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime - minister , cas ...
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... dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , with the Bishop of St. Asaph , ( Dr. Shipley ) , Mr. Allan Ramsay , Mr. Gibbon , Mr. Cambridge , and Mr. Langton . Mr. Ramsay had lately returned from Italy , and entertained us with his ...
... dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , with the Bishop of St. Asaph , ( Dr. Shipley ) , Mr. Allan Ramsay , Mr. Gibbon , Mr. Cambridge , and Mr. Langton . Mr. Ramsay had lately returned from Italy , and entertained us with his ...
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... dined together with Mr. Scott ( now Sir Wil- liam Scott , his Majesty's Advocate General ) , at his chambers in the Temple , nobody else there . The company being small , Johnson was not in such spirits as he had been the preceding day ...
... dined together with Mr. Scott ( now Sir Wil- liam Scott , his Majesty's Advocate General ) , at his chambers in the Temple , nobody else there . The company being small , Johnson was not in such spirits as he had been the preceding day ...
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Página 382 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Página 14 - 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. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Página 381 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Página 316 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 15 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 369 - 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.
Página 373 - 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 ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 351 - 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.
Página 262 - As I went by, the Protestants were plundering the Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred ; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day.
Página 121 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.