The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Sonnenschein, 1910 |
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... give it the air of a modern work . The breaking up of the text into chapters , with headings of the contents , had something tc commend it on the score of convenience ; but it was a departure from the author's intention . Chapters are ...
... give it the air of a modern work . The breaking up of the text into chapters , with headings of the contents , had something tc commend it on the score of convenience ; but it was a departure from the author's intention . Chapters are ...
Page xxvii
... give light at West- minster . ' " In the " Life " it stands : " Sheridan cannot bear me . I bring his declamation to a point . I ask him a plain question : What do you mean to teach ? Besides , sir , what influence can Mr. Sheridan have ...
... give light at West- minster . ' " In the " Life " it stands : " Sheridan cannot bear me . I bring his declamation to a point . I ask him a plain question : What do you mean to teach ? Besides , sir , what influence can Mr. Sheridan have ...
Page xxviii
... give an idea of greater tediousness to the narrative . Even after the publication of his work he could improve and strengthen a story . Thus : " A foppish physician imagined that Johnson had anim- adverted on his wearing a fine coat ...
... give an idea of greater tediousness to the narrative . Even after the publication of his work he could improve and strengthen a story . Thus : " A foppish physician imagined that Johnson had anim- adverted on his wearing a fine coat ...
Page xxx
... give it as a story which Johnson laughingly told as having circulated ? " Accordingly , this was put in the form of a note : - " It " I have had inquiry made in Ireland as to this story , but do not find it recollected there . I give it ...
... give it as a story which Johnson laughingly told as having circulated ? " Accordingly , this was put in the form of a note : - " It " I have had inquiry made in Ireland as to this story , but do not find it recollected there . I give it ...
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... give us an account of the siege of Bender , " which properly is corrected to " Belgrade . " It seems curious what should have put Bender into Boswell's head . But a few evenings before he had told Johnson he intended to write a history ...
... give us an account of the siege of Bender , " which properly is corrected to " Belgrade . " It seems curious what should have put Bender into Boswell's head . But a few evenings before he had told Johnson he intended to write a history ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 241 - That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...