Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 sidor |
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... Sastres , for whose person some of his letters manifest a strong affection , and of whose talents I have often heard him speak with great esteem . That gentleman has told me , that his fears of death ended with his hope of recovery ...
... Sastres , for whose person some of his letters manifest a strong affection , and of whose talents I have often heard him speak with great esteem . That gentleman has told me , that his fears of death ended with his hope of recovery ...
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... Sastres , to whom , in his last moments , he uttered these words , Jam moriturus , ' that at a quarter past seven , he 6 papers to which he , as residuary legatee , became entitled . It is painful to see in a man of Sir J. Hawkins's ...
... Sastres , to whom , in his last moments , he uttered these words , Jam moriturus , ' that at a quarter past seven , he 6 papers to which he , as residuary legatee , became entitled . It is painful to see in a man of Sir J. Hawkins's ...
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... Sastres came in . We stayed with him about an hour , when we left him on his saying he had some business to do . Mr. Sastres and myself went together homewards , discours- ing on the dangerous state of our friend , when it was resolved ...
... Sastres came in . We stayed with him about an hour , when we left him on his saying he had some business to do . Mr. Sastres and myself went together homewards , discours- ing on the dangerous state of our friend , when it was resolved ...
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... Sastres and I returned into the chamber . Dr. Johnson complained that sleep this day had powerful dominion over him , that he waked with great difficulty , and that probably he should go off in one of these paroxysms . Afterwards he ...
... Sastres and I returned into the chamber . Dr. Johnson complained that sleep this day had powerful dominion over him , that he waked with great difficulty , and that probably he should go off in one of these paroxysms . Afterwards he ...
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... Sastres , and Mr. Ryland : the Doctor being asleep in the chamber , we went all to tea and coffee ; when the Doctor came in to us rather cheerful , and entering said , " Dear gentlemen , how do you do ? " He drank coffee , and in the ...
... Sastres , and Mr. Ryland : the Doctor being asleep in the chamber , we went all to tea and coffee ; when the Doctor came in to us rather cheerful , and entering said , " Dear gentlemen , how do you do ? " He drank coffee , and in the ...
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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ... John Wilson Croker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
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Sida 387 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Sida 464 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Sida 26 - We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age...
Sida 388 - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
Sida 437 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Sida 379 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Sida 464 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Sida 26 - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests, and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Sida 372 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Sida 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.