The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesG. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... Miss 1 , that she sent one of the gentlemen to inquire who she was . I find all true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad ...
... Miss 1 , that she sent one of the gentlemen to inquire who she was . I find all true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad ...
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... Miss Reynolds , who has noted them in her Re- collections . 66 JOHNSON " The French , sir , are a very silly people . They have no common life . Nothing but the two ends , beggary and no- | bility . Sir , they are made up in every thing ...
... Miss Reynolds , who has noted them in her Re- collections . 66 JOHNSON " The French , sir , are a very silly people . They have no common life . Nothing but the two ends , beggary and no- | bility . Sir , they are made up in every thing ...
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... Miss Thrale played on the harpsichord ; and with eagerness he called to her , Why don't you dash away like Burney ? Dr. Burney upon this said to him , I believe , sir , we shall make a musi- cian of you at last . ' Johnson with candid ...
... Miss Thrale played on the harpsichord ; and with eagerness he called to her , Why don't you dash away like Burney ? Dr. Burney upon this said to him , I believe , sir , we shall make a musi- cian of you at last . ' Johnson with candid ...
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... Miss Adey , were great admirers of Dr. Johnson ; and he behaved to them with a kindness and easy pleasantry , such as we see between old and intimate acquaintance . He accompanied Mrs. Cobb to St. Mary's Church , and I went to the ...
... Miss Adey , were great admirers of Dr. Johnson ; and he behaved to them with a kindness and easy pleasantry , such as we see between old and intimate acquaintance . He accompanied Mrs. Cobb to St. Mary's Church , and I went to the ...
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... Miss Porter's property , and has contributed so many of her manuscripts to this edition . It was to him that Miss Porter addressed , in the presence of Dr. Johnson , that two - edged reproof , which Dr. Johnson repeated to Mrs. Piozzi ...
... Miss Porter's property , and has contributed so many of her manuscripts to this edition . It was to him that Miss Porter addressed , in the presence of Dr. Johnson , that two - edged reproof , which Dr. Johnson repeated to Mrs. Piozzi ...
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Page 74 - Pray give me leave, Sir: — It is better here — A little of the brown — Some fat, Sir — A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter — Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; — or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — "Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Page 293 - 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.
Page 350 - I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has been long my custom, when I felt a confusion and indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse™. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very...
Page 140 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 176 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen (said he), Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.
Page 72 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — " Boswell: "Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you." Johnson: "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Page 283 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; 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.
Page 218 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Page 145 - John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
Page 279 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his Letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps...