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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... thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authours , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings ...
... thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authours , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings ...
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... things from which you and I would shrink ; yet , Sir , they will perhaps do more good in life than we . But let us ... thing most brutish , I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known . ' The Tempest , act i . sc . 2 . Aetat ...
... things from which you and I would shrink ; yet , Sir , they will perhaps do more good in life than we . But let us ... thing most brutish , I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known . ' The Tempest , act i . sc . 2 . Aetat ...
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... thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I ...
... thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I ...
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... thing at all . " ' ' He used at one time to go occasionally to the green . room of Drury - lane Theatre ' , where he was much regarded . by the players , and was very easy and facetious with them . He had a very high opinion of Mrs ...
... thing at all . " ' ' He used at one time to go occasionally to the green . room of Drury - lane Theatre ' , where he was much regarded . by the players , and was very easy and facetious with them . He had a very high opinion of Mrs ...
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... thing . " Colman slily said , ( but it is believed Dr. Johnson did not hear him , ) " Then the proper expression should have been , —Sir , if you don't lie , you're a rascal . " ' His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that ...
... thing . " Colman slily said , ( but it is believed Dr. Johnson did not hear him , ) " Then the proper expression should have been , —Sir , if you don't lie , you're a rascal . " ' His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that ...
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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.