The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Tom 5J. Murray, 1835 |
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... give an idea of the scene would require a page with two columns ; but it ought rather to be re- presented by two good players . The old gentleman said , Clarke was very wicked , for going so much into the Arian system . " I will not say ...
... give an idea of the scene would require a page with two columns ; but it ought rather to be re- presented by two good players . The old gentleman said , Clarke was very wicked , for going so much into the Arian system . " I will not say ...
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... give credit to careless or exagger- ated accounts of things . After seeing the castle , we looked at a small hut near it . It is called Teigh Franchich , i.e. the Frenchman's House . Col could not tell us the history of it . A poor man ...
... give credit to careless or exagger- ated accounts of things . After seeing the castle , we looked at a small hut near it . It is called Teigh Franchich , i.e. the Frenchman's House . Col could not tell us the history of it . A poor man ...
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... give him twice as much land as he has , it does him no good , unless he gets also more stock . It is clear then , that the Highland landlords , who let their substantial tenants leave them , are infatuated ; for the poor small tenants ...
... give him twice as much land as he has , it does him no good , unless he gets also more stock . It is clear then , that the Highland landlords , who let their substantial tenants leave them , are infatuated ; for the poor small tenants ...
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... give what is called his Epitaph , which Dr. Johnson said " was not so very bad . " " Nature's minion , Virtue's wonder , Art's corrective here lyes under . " 66 Why , I asked , what " Art's corrective ” meant . Sir , " said he , " that ...
... give what is called his Epitaph , which Dr. Johnson said " was not so very bad . " " Nature's minion , Virtue's wonder , Art's corrective here lyes under . " 66 Why , I asked , what " Art's corrective ” meant . Sir , " said he , " that ...
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... give him the uneasiness of seeing that I knew he was not , or even of being himself reminded of it . " - Sunday , Oct. 10. There was this day the most terrible storm of wind and rain that I ever re- member . It made such an awful ...
... give him the uneasiness of seeing that I knew he was not , or even of being himself reminded of it . " - Sunday , Oct. 10. There was this day the most terrible storm of wind and rain that I ever re- member . It made such an awful ...
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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 231 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
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 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 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' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Strona 233 - I'll have a double quantity; for I am told Foote means to take me off, as he calls it, and I am determined the fellow shall not do it with impunity.
Strona 257 - When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Strona 19 - There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.