Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volumen 4Harper, 1891 |
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... looks unformed in his manners and awkward in his gestures . He joined not one word in the general talk . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 237. See ante , ii . 47 , note . 2 By Garrick . See ante , i . 233 . See post , under Sept. 30 ...
... looks unformed in his manners and awkward in his gestures . He joined not one word in the general talk . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 237. See ante , ii . 47 , note . 2 By Garrick . See ante , i . 233 . See post , under Sept. 30 ...
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... look to any particular person , called out , " Are we alive after all this satire ! " ' ' He had a strong prejudice against the political character of Secker ' , one instance of which appeared at Oxford , where he expressed great ...
... look to any particular person , called out , " Are we alive after all this satire ! " ' ' He had a strong prejudice against the political character of Secker ' , one instance of which appeared at Oxford , where he expressed great ...
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... look ' discovered him to receive some solace of the miseries of life , from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt , and the eloquence with which he bewailed them . ' See ante , April 8 , 1780 . ' A man Aetat . 71. ] Partial ...
... look ' discovered him to receive some solace of the miseries of life , from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt , and the eloquence with which he bewailed them . ' See ante , April 8 , 1780 . ' A man Aetat . 71. ] Partial ...
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... look it up . Thus in his criticism on Congreve ( Works , viii . 31 ) he says : - ' Of his plays I can- not speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed . ' In a note on his Life of Rowe , Nichols says : - ' This ...
... look it up . Thus in his criticism on Congreve ( Works , viii . 31 ) he says : - ' Of his plays I can- not speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed . ' In a note on his Life of Rowe , Nichols says : - ' This ...
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... look round upon the present time , and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined , and their claims stated , and the pretensions of Pope will be ...
... look round upon the present time , and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined , and their claims stated , and the pretensions of Pope will be ...
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Página 320 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Página 457 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 54 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Página 466 - I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.'—' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.
Página 211 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfum'd with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew, Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.
Página 457 - 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 stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 198 - Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...
Página 123 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings " ; and thus by degrees the title was established.
Página 112 - A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eve 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...
Página 473 - Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last ! On the 'Death of Mr.