The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Tom 51835 |
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Strona 8
... look , like drowned mice ! " might , I believe , have been well applied to me . There was in the harbour , before us , a Campbell - town vessel , the Betty , Kenneth Morison master , taking in kelp , and bound for Ireland . We sent our ...
... look , like drowned mice ! " might , I believe , have been well applied to me . There was in the harbour , before us , a Campbell - town vessel , the Betty , Kenneth Morison master , taking in kelp , and bound for Ireland . We sent our ...
Strona 11
... look back ten years , to the time when we first thought of visiting the Hebrides . How distant and improbable the scheme then ap- peared ! Yet here we were actually among them . " Sir , " said he , " people may come to do any thing ...
... look back ten years , to the time when we first thought of visiting the Hebrides . How distant and improbable the scheme then ap- peared ! Yet here we were actually among them . " Sir , " said he , " people may come to do any thing ...
Strona 36
... looks , the son looks . " There being little conversation to - night , I must endeavour to recollect what I may have omitted on former occasions . When I boasted , at Rasay , of my independency of spirit , and that I could not be bribed ...
... looks , the son looks . " There being little conversation to - night , I must endeavour to recollect what I may have omitted on former occasions . When I boasted , at Rasay , of my independency of spirit , and that I could not be bribed ...
Strona 58
... look at any thing which a friend should show me in a newspaper ; but in general , I would read only what is theological . I read just now some of " Drum- mond's Travels , " before I perceived what books were here . I then took up ...
... look at any thing which a friend should show me in a newspaper ; but in general , I would read only what is theological . I read just now some of " Drum- mond's Travels , " before I perceived what books were here . I then took up ...
Strona 63
... look at it , but started away . At breakfast , I asked , " What is the reason that we are angry at a trader's having opulence ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , the reason is ( though I don't undertake to prove that there is a reason ) we see ...
... look at it , but started away . At breakfast , I asked , " What is the reason that we are angry at a trader's having opulence ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , the reason is ( though I don't undertake to prove that there is a reason ) we see ...
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admiration afterwards answer antè appeared Argyle Auchinleck Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe Boswell's breakfast called castle character church compliments conversation DEAR SIR dined dinner doctor doctor of medicine duchess Duke Duke of Argyle Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Garrick gentleman give happy hear heard Hebrides Highland honour hope humble servant humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island JAMES BOSWELL Johnson Journey king lady Laird land Langton learned LETTER Lichfield lived Lochbuy London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo M'Lean Maclean mean mentioned mind morning Mull never night observed perhaps Piozzi pleased political Rasay recollect remark Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed seen Sept Sir Allan Streatham Sunday suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale told took Tour Ulva visited walked WALTER SCOTT Whiggism wish wonder write wrote young
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Strona 86 - 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...
Strona 261 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Strona 86 - 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...
Strona 312 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Strona 188 - Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before?
Strona 89 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Strona 73 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Strona 287 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Strona 42 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Strona 137 - 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!