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... Madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the case . " Talking of " The Spectator , " he said , " It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers , in the half of the work which was not written by Addison ; for there ...
... Madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the case . " Talking of " The Spectator , " he said , " It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers , in the half of the work which was not written by Addison ; for there ...
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... Madam , when you are declaiming , declaim ; and when you are calculating , calculate . " At another time , when she said , perhaps affectedly , " I don't like to fly . " JOHNSON . " With your wings , Madam , you must fly : but have a ...
... Madam , when you are declaiming , declaim ; and when you are calculating , calculate . " At another time , when she said , perhaps affectedly , " I don't like to fly . " JOHNSON . " With your wings , Madam , you must fly : but have a ...
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... Madam , ( looking towards Johnson , ) that among all your acquaintance you could find one exception ? " The lady smiled , and seemed to acquiesce . " I read ( said he , ) Sharpe's Letters on Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There ...
... Madam , ( looking towards Johnson , ) that among all your acquaintance you could find one exception ? " The lady smiled , and seemed to acquiesce . " I read ( said he , ) Sharpe's Letters on Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There ...
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... Madam , ( said I , ) his respect for you is such , that I know he will not leave you , unless you absolutely desire it . But as you have so much of his company , I hope you will be 1 See page 8 of this volume . good enough to forego it ...
... Madam , ( said I , ) his respect for you is such , that I know he will not leave you , unless you absolutely desire it . But as you have so much of his company , I hope you will be 1 See page 8 of this volume . good enough to forego it ...
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... Madam , be pleased to consider my situation ; I carried the message , and I assured Mr. Dilly that Dr. Johnson was to come ; and no doubt he has made a dinner , and invited a company , and boasted of the honour he expected to have . I ...
... Madam , be pleased to consider my situation ; I carried the message , and I assured Mr. Dilly that Dr. Johnson was to come ; and no doubt he has made a dinner , and invited a company , and boasted of the honour he expected to have . I ...
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Page 115 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 536 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 483 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 359 - 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 251 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 366 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Page 200 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 529 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Page 365 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.