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Pàgina xxviii
... wish , sir , I were a fifth . ' " From the " Boswelliana " we learn that the scene was at Windsor , and the hero the mayor , with whom he dined . " But the fellow ( said he ) , not content with feeding my body , thought he must feed my ...
... wish , sir , I were a fifth . ' " From the " Boswelliana " we learn that the scene was at Windsor , and the hero the mayor , with whom he dined . " But the fellow ( said he ) , not content with feeding my body , thought he must feed my ...
Pàgina lii
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
Pàgina liii
... wish to conceal : but what- ever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more ...
... wish to conceal : but what- ever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more ...
Pàgina lvi
... wish no other herald , " No other speaker of my living actions , " To keep mine honour from corruption , " But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . " 11 & SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII , • See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated ...
... wish no other herald , " No other speaker of my living actions , " To keep mine honour from corruption , " But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . " 11 & SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII , • See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated ...
Pàgina 11
... wish to talk of his affairs , which be neglected , and which she wished to have in order . " He " considered tea very expensive , and discouraged her from keep- ing company with the neighbours , and from paying visits or receiving them ...
... wish to talk of his affairs , which be neglected , and which she wished to have in order . " He " considered tea very expensive , and discouraged her from keep- ing company with the neighbours , and from paying visits or receiving them ...
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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...