The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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Pàgina 193
... Bozzy , Bruce , whate'er thy name , Thou mighty shark for anecdote and fame ; Thou jackall , leading lion Johnson forth , To eat M'Pherson ' midst his native North ; [ ( 1 ) Dr. Wolcot , published in 1787. ] To frighten grave professors ...
... Bozzy , Bruce , whate'er thy name , Thou mighty shark for anecdote and fame ; Thou jackall , leading lion Johnson forth , To eat M'Pherson ' midst his native North ; [ ( 1 ) Dr. Wolcot , published in 1787. ] To frighten grave professors ...
Pàgina 194
... Bozzy join with Wood , and Tommy Hearn , Who drove the spiders from much prose and rhyme , And snatch'd old stories from the jaws of time . Sweet is thy page , I ween , that doth recite , How thou and Johnson , arm in arm , one night ...
... Bozzy join with Wood , and Tommy Hearn , Who drove the spiders from much prose and rhyme , And snatch'd old stories from the jaws of time . Sweet is thy page , I ween , that doth recite , How thou and Johnson , arm in arm , one night ...
Pàgina 195
... Bozzy scampering close behind . Of Lady Lochbuy with what glee we read , Who offer'd Sam , for breakfast , cold sheep's head ; Who , press'd and worried by this dame so civil , Wished the sheep's head , and woman's at the devil . - I ...
... Bozzy scampering close behind . Of Lady Lochbuy with what glee we read , Who offer'd Sam , for breakfast , cold sheep's head ; Who , press'd and worried by this dame so civil , Wished the sheep's head , and woman's at the devil . - I ...
Pàgina 196
... Bozzy , drunk as David's sow , And begging , with raised eyes and lengthen'd chin , Heaven not to damn thee for the deadly sin : I see , too , the stern moralist regale , And pen a Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale . I see , without a night ...
... Bozzy , drunk as David's sow , And begging , with raised eyes and lengthen'd chin , Heaven not to damn thee for the deadly sin : I see , too , the stern moralist regale , And pen a Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale . I see , without a night ...
Pàgina 197
... Bozzy leave the field ! Joe Miller's self , whose page such fun provokes , Shall quit his shroud , to grin at Bozzy's jokes ! How are we all with rapture touch'd , to see Where , when , and at what hour , you swallowed tea ; How , once ...
... Bozzy leave the field ! Joe Miller's self , whose page such fun provokes , Shall quit his shroud , to grin at Bozzy's jokes ! How are we all with rapture touch'd , to see Where , when , and at what hour , you swallowed tea ; How , once ...
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Pàgina 88 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Pàgina 145 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pàgina 92 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Pàgina 69 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Pàgina 171 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Pàgina 75 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Pàgina 62 - He said, that the Parliamentary Debates were the only part of his writings which then gave him any compunction: but that at the time he wrote them, he had no conception he was imposing upon the world...
Pàgina 170 - ... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pàgina 77 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Pàgina 90 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is?