The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 1Sonnenschein, 1910 |
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Pàgina v
... the spirit of that admirable view of Boswell's work and character which you gave to the world many years ago . PERCY FITZGERALD . OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PROPOSALS FOR A NEW EDITION TO THOMAS CARLYLE, Esq. ...
... the spirit of that admirable view of Boswell's work and character which you gave to the world many years ago . PERCY FITZGERALD . OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PROPOSALS FOR A NEW EDITION TO THOMAS CARLYLE, Esq. ...
Pàgina xiv
... character , habits , & c . , with which the " Tour " com- mences , though this had been already given at great length ; and when the " Life " is once more resumed , a sort of epitome of Johnson's proceedings in Scotland follows , so ...
... character , habits , & c . , with which the " Tour " com- mences , though this had been already given at great length ; and when the " Life " is once more resumed , a sort of epitome of Johnson's proceedings in Scotland follows , so ...
Pàgina xvi
... character of the alterations and additions by placing them on the same page , but in a different shape . That such is the logical course is evident from the fact that if Boswell's last edition were reprinted " textually , " the numerous ...
... character of the alterations and additions by placing them on the same page , but in a different shape . That such is the logical course is evident from the fact that if Boswell's last edition were reprinted " textually , " the numerous ...
Pàgina xxv
... character in Boswell is this idea that his reports would be accepted , as matter of course , by those who figured unpleasantly in them . " One of them , " he writes of a Presbyterian minister , " though a man of sincere good powers ...
... character in Boswell is this idea that his reports would be accepted , as matter of course , by those who figured unpleasantly in them . " One of them , " he writes of a Presbyterian minister , " though a man of sincere good powers ...
Pàgina xxx
... character is , that our author , after suppressing a name in his first edition , often found courage to give it full in his second , as in the case of " the fashionable Baronet , " to which he appends ( second edition ) a note , " My ...
... character is , that our author , after suppressing a name in his first edition , often found courage to give it full in his second , as in the case of " the fashionable Baronet , " to which he appends ( second edition ) a note , " My ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with The Journal of a Tour to ..., Volum 1 James Boswell Visualització completa - 1884 |
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Pàgina 256 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Pàgina 256 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Pàgina 241 - That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Pàgina 41 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pàgina 470 - Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again.
Pàgina 411 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Pàgina 158 - Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord...
Pàgina 275 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pàgina 6 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark, that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving z with violent commotion.
Pàgina 119 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...