The Story of Doctor Johnson: Being an Introduction to Boswell's LifeThe University Press, 1919 - 157 pages |
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... asked Mr Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , because it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had caught the ...
... asked Mr Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , because it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had caught the ...
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... asked . Now , Sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " " However ... " says Boswell " Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr Hunter . Mr Langton one day asked him how he ...
... asked . Now , Sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " " However ... " says Boswell " Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr Hunter . Mr Langton one day asked him how he ...
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... asked his son to go with him to Uttoxeter . Samuel refused , being too proud to stand at the stall in the market - place . Again we feel inclined to think our hero rather a prig of a fellow - too lazy to do regular work of his own , too ...
... asked his son to go with him to Uttoxeter . Samuel refused , being too proud to stand at the stall in the market - place . Again we feel inclined to think our hero rather a prig of a fellow - too lazy to do regular work of his own , too ...
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... asked if he could remember Queen Anne , " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . " But it did Johnson no good . Neither then , nor in later life ...
... asked if he could remember Queen Anne , " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . " But it did Johnson no good . Neither then , nor in later life ...
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... asked me why I had not attended . I answered I had been sliding in Christ Church meadow . And this I said with as much nonchalance as I am now talking to you . I had no notion I was wrong or irreverent to my tutor . " Johnson's rooms ...
... asked me why I had not attended . I answered I had been sliding in Christ Church meadow . And this I said with as much nonchalance as I am now talking to you . I had no notion I was wrong or irreverent to my tutor . " Johnson's rooms ...
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Page 71 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Page 82 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Page 95 - ... which he lay ; The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread ; The humid wall with paltry pictures spread ; The royal game of goose was there in view And the twelve rules the Royal Martyr drew ; The Seasons, framed with listing, found a place, And brave Prince William shew'd his lamp-black face.
Page 12 - Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke College, " was caressed and loved by all about him, was a gay and frolicsome fellow, and passed there the happiest part of his life." But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease.
Page 58 - He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close...
Page 59 - While he was talking, he perceived a person standing at a window in the room, shaking his head, and rolling himself about in a strange ridiculous manner.
Page 114 - ... and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop...
Page 143 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own: whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Page 101 - He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man.
Page 153 - Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should have thought so too," said the king, " if you had not written so well.