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... called taking an air bath ; after which he went to bed again , and slept two hours more . Johnson , who was always ready to beat down any thing that seemed to be exhibited with disproportionate importance , thus observed : " I suppose ...
... called taking an air bath ; after which he went to bed again , and slept two hours more . Johnson , who was always ready to beat down any thing that seemed to be exhibited with disproportionate importance , thus observed : " I suppose ...
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James Boswell Edmond Malone. M. D. " Dr. Rutty was one of the people called Quakers , a physician of some eminence in Dublin , and authour of several works . This Diary , which was kept from 1753 to 1775 , the year in which he died , and ...
James Boswell Edmond Malone. M. D. " Dr. Rutty was one of the people called Quakers , a physician of some eminence in Dublin , and authour of several works . This Diary , which was kept from 1753 to 1775 , the year in which he died , and ...
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... called to our bar . I was told , by a very sensible lawyer , that there are a great many chances against any man's success in the profession of the law ; the candidates are so numerous , and those who get large practice so few . He said ...
... called to our bar . I was told , by a very sensible lawyer , that there are a great many chances against any man's success in the profession of the law ; the candidates are so numerous , and those who get large practice so few . He said ...
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... called this " modern cant . " I perceived that he pronounced the word heard , as if spelt with a double e , heerd , instead of sounding it herd , as is most usually done . He said , his reason was , that if it were pronounced herd ...
... called this " modern cant . " I perceived that he pronounced the word heard , as if spelt with a double e , heerd , instead of sounding it herd , as is most usually done . He said , his reason was , that if it were pronounced herd ...
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... called for soldiers from the mountains of the north , " and numbers of brave Highlanders were going abroad , never to return . Whereas the airs in " The Beg- gar's Opera , " many of which are very soft 38 [ 1777 . THE LIFE OF.
... called for soldiers from the mountains of the north , " and numbers of brave Highlanders were going abroad , never to return . Whereas the airs in " The Beg- gar's Opera , " many of which are very soft 38 [ 1777 . THE LIFE OF.
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Page 382 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 14 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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...
Page 381 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Page 316 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 15 - 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. The 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...
Page 369 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 373 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 351 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 262 - As I went by, the Protestants were plundering the Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred ; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day.
Page 121 - Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.