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, 4. köideHarper, 1891 |
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... common , as in other metres . This observation was new to John- son , and struck him . Had he examined me farther , I fear he would have found me ignorant . Langton was a very good Greek scholar , much superior to Johnson , to whom ...
... common , as in other metres . This observation was new to John- son , and struck him . Had he examined me farther , I fear he would have found me ignorant . Langton was a very good Greek scholar , much superior to Johnson , to whom ...
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... The second stanza , exhibiting Mars ' car and Jove's eagle , is unwor- thy of further notice . Criticism disdains to chase a school - boy to his common - places . ' Ib . p . 484 . good 20 The abuse of the talent of ridicule . [
... The second stanza , exhibiting Mars ' car and Jove's eagle , is unwor- thy of further notice . Criticism disdains to chase a school - boy to his common - places . ' Ib . p . 484 . good 20 The abuse of the talent of ridicule . [
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... common conversation corresponds with the gen- eral fame which he has in the world . Take up whatever topick you please , he is ready to meet you ' . " ' ' A gentleman , by no means deficient in literature , having discovered less ...
... common conversation corresponds with the gen- eral fame which he has in the world . Take up whatever topick you please , he is ready to meet you ' . " ' ' A gentleman , by no means deficient in literature , having discovered less ...
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... common friend , who has known him long , and is not much addicted to flattery , gives the highest testimony . Various Readings in the Life of MILTON . ' I cannot find any meaning but this which [ his most bigotted advocates ] even ...
... common friend , who has known him long , and is not much addicted to flattery , gives the highest testimony . Various Readings in the Life of MILTON . ' I cannot find any meaning but this which [ his most bigotted advocates ] even ...
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... common occurrences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expectations . An instance ...
... common occurrences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expectations . An instance ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 123 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings " ; and thus by degrees the title was established.
Page 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...
Page 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.