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Pàgina viii
... hand , and the fashion was introduced of adding notes , supplied by Johnson's friends and others , in the shape of correction or illustration . The sixth edition having been read over by the younger Boswell and compared with the first ...
... hand , and the fashion was introduced of adding notes , supplied by Johnson's friends and others , in the shape of correction or illustration . The sixth edition having been read over by the younger Boswell and compared with the first ...
Pàgina xiii
... hand , some proper names in the Hebrides , such as Donald Roy , are capriciously printed in italics . At p . 289 , " we must be at Aberdeen " becomes " we must be , " with a loss of effect . So in the rebuke to Hannah More ( p . 778 ) ...
... hand , some proper names in the Hebrides , such as Donald Roy , are capriciously printed in italics . At p . 289 , " we must be at Aberdeen " becomes " we must be , " with a loss of effect . So in the rebuke to Hannah More ( p . 778 ) ...
Pàgina xv
... work , so deservedly its favourite , left the author's hand complete and finished , as it now stands , and it is little suspected how much was shaped and added and withdrawn by the writer himself during the progress PROPOSALS . XV.
... work , so deservedly its favourite , left the author's hand complete and finished , as it now stands , and it is little suspected how much was shaped and added and withdrawn by the writer himself during the progress PROPOSALS . XV.
Pàgina xxi
... hand " em- ployed them for a well - written life of the sage , we can conceive at once what the result would have been . It would have now ranked among the numerous " Lives and Times " that have come down to us , and as a laborious and ...
... hand " em- ployed them for a well - written life of the sage , we can conceive at once what the result would have been . It would have now ranked among the numerous " Lives and Times " that have come down to us , and as a laborious and ...
Pàgina xxii
... hand , and whom he hated with a feverish jealousy ( in which case he might presume they were weaker than he was ) ; or in the case of those who were dead and could make no sign . In most cases he kept these considerations before his ...
... hand , and whom he hated with a feverish jealousy ( in which case he might presume they were weaker than he was ) ; or in the case of those who were dead and could make no sign . In most cases he kept these considerations before his ...
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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...