The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.T. Cadwell and W. Davies, 1807 - 460 pages |
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Page 118
... , with others which he afterwards gave me , as also his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield , which he dictated to me , I reserve for his " LIFE . " * A M'Queen is a Highland mode of expression . 118 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... , with others which he afterwards gave me , as also his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield , which he dictated to me , I reserve for his " LIFE . " * A M'Queen is a Highland mode of expression . 118 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
Page 124
... M'Queen said he had more volumes ; and his pride seemed to be much piqued that we were surprised at. * A M'Queen is a Highland mode of expression . An Englishman would say one M'Queen . But where there are clans or tribes of men ...
... M'Queen said he had more volumes ; and his pride seemed to be much piqued that we were surprised at. * A M'Queen is a Highland mode of expression . An Englishman would say one M'Queen . But where there are clans or tribes of men ...
Page 125
... M'Queen sat by us a while , and talked with us . He said , all the Laird of Glen- morison's people would bleed for him , if they were well used ; but that seventy men had gone out of the Glen to America . That he himself intended to go ...
... M'Queen sat by us a while , and talked with us . He said , all the Laird of Glen- morison's people would bleed for him , if they were well used ; but that seventy men had gone out of the Glen to America . That he himself intended to go ...
Page 129
... M'Queen walked some miles to give us a convoy . He had , in 1745 , joined the Highland army at Fort Augustus , and continued in it till after the battle of Culloden . As he narrated the particulars of that ill - advised , but brave ...
... M'Queen walked some miles to give us a convoy . He had , in 1745 , joined the Highland army at Fort Augustus , and continued in it till after the battle of Culloden . As he narrated the particulars of that ill - advised , but brave ...
Page 136
... M'Queen's , last night , he observed , that few were so well lodged in a ship . To - night he said , we were better than if we had been upon the hill . He lay down buttoned up in his great coat . I had my sheets spread on the hay , and ...
... M'Queen's , last night , he observed , that few were so well lodged in a ship . To - night he said , we were better than if we had been upon the hill . He lay down buttoned up in his great coat . I had my sheets spread on the hay , and ...
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afterwards ancient appeared asked battle of Culloden believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle Chief conversation Corrichatachin dinner Donald Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Inchkenneth Inverness island isle of Sky JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson King Kingsburgh knew lady Laird laughed learning lived London looked Lord Lord Monboddo Lord of Badenoch M'Aulay M'Donald M'Kinnon M'Lean M'Leod M'Pherson's Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned MʻQueen miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles publick Rasay rock sail Samuel Johnson Sconser Scotland sent servant shewed shore spirit stones Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told took walked wind wish woman write young Rasay
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Page 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 357 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Page 18 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 26 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation ;" — he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his mission was introduced, and attested ; a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and...
Page 87 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the...
Page 105 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Page 403 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects , and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Page 129 - No, sir. It would be called so in a book ; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other.
Page 244 - M'Pherson's Ossian to be more like the original than Pope's Homer. JOHNSON. " Well, sir, this is just what I always maintained. He has found names, and stories, and phrases, nay passages in old songs, and with them has blended his own compositions, and so made what he gives to the world as the translation of an ancient poem...