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Pàgina viii
... whole series of editions , could only have resulted in serious departure from the original . one proof of how necessary it has become to go back to the first editions , it may be mentioned that Malone had announced in his advertisements ...
... whole series of editions , could only have resulted in serious departure from the original . one proof of how necessary it has become to go back to the first editions , it may be mentioned that Malone had announced in his advertisements ...
Pàgina ix
... whole with a huge bulk of elaborate notes . Obscure allusions guessed at , biographies furnished , blanks filled up , speculations offered , opinions , either of Boswell or of Johnson , refuted in controversial style , contemporary ...
... whole with a huge bulk of elaborate notes . Obscure allusions guessed at , biographies furnished , blanks filled up , speculations offered , opinions , either of Boswell or of Johnson , refuted in controversial style , contemporary ...
Pàgina x
... whole class , will show that the statement is not overcharged . Notes altered . - One , under date of Nov. 1769 , runs thus : " An acute correspondent of the European Magazine , April , 1792 , has completely exposed a mistake which has ...
... whole class , will show that the statement is not overcharged . Notes altered . - One , under date of Nov. 1769 , runs thus : " An acute correspondent of the European Magazine , April , 1792 , has completely exposed a mistake which has ...
Pàgina xiii
... whole work is so defaced that the only course for future editors of Mr. Croker's edition , will be to collate his work carefully and laboriously with the original , and ascertain the amount of these prunings and abbreviations . What ...
... whole work is so defaced that the only course for future editors of Mr. Croker's edition , will be to collate his work carefully and laboriously with the original , and ascertain the amount of these prunings and abbreviations . What ...
Pàgina xxvi
... from the text itself , which never could have represented the talk as it came from Johnson's lips . The whole is ton deliberate , too close , and too well winnowed , xxvi PREFACE . in existence one of these latter books, and which ...
... from the text itself , which never could have represented the talk as it came from Johnson's lips . The whole is ton deliberate , too close , and too well winnowed , xxvi PREFACE . in existence one of these latter books, and which ...
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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...