The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary No , Sam , my willing consent you will never have to so preposterous a match . You are not twenty - five , and she is turned of fifty . If she had any prudence , this request had ...
... expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary No , Sam , my willing consent you will never have to so preposterous a match . You are not twenty - five , and she is turned of fifty . If she had any prudence , this request had ...
Pàgina 19
... expression . I am charmed with his perfect expression on his instrument . Surely the finest sensibilities must vibrate through his frame , since they breathe so sweetly through his song ! ( Oct. 1787. ) 503. Reading Manuscripts . When ...
... expression . I am charmed with his perfect expression on his instrument . Surely the finest sensibilities must vibrate through his frame , since they breathe so sweetly through his song ! ( Oct. 1787. ) 503. Reading Manuscripts . When ...
Pàgina 53
... expressions of his favourite Hodge . 547. Charles the Twelfth . Charles the Twelfth was guilty of a deed which will eternally shade the glory of one of the most splendid periods that are presented to us in history the murder of Patkal ...
... expressions of his favourite Hodge . 547. Charles the Twelfth . Charles the Twelfth was guilty of a deed which will eternally shade the glory of one of the most splendid periods that are presented to us in history the murder of Patkal ...
Pàgina 59
... expressions in which he had vented this feel- ing , that there could be no doubt of his hearty appro- bation . 557. Sex . He said , he doubted whether there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the ...
... expressions in which he had vented this feel- ing , that there could be no doubt of his hearty appro- bation . 557. Sex . He said , he doubted whether there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the ...
Pàgina 60
... expression , that it was at least a justifiable , an honest and avowed aversion , that obtained this character for its possessor . But still more to his honour is it , that his irritability was not excited by the most common cause of ...
... expression , that it was at least a justifiable , an honest and avowed aversion , that obtained this character for its possessor . But still more to his honour is it , that his irritability was not excited by the most common cause of ...
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Passatges populars
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?