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... perhaps be ascribed that unexampled richness and bril- liancy which appeared in his own . As a proof at once of his eagerness for colloquial distinction , and his high notion of this eminent friend , he once addressed him thus : " We ...
... perhaps be ascribed that unexampled richness and bril- liancy which appeared in his own . As a proof at once of his eagerness for colloquial distinction , and his high notion of this eminent friend , he once addressed him thus : " We ...
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... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? He related , that he had once in a dream a con- test of wit with some other person , and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his ...
... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? He related , that he had once in a dream a con- test of wit with some other person , and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his ...
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... perhaps more than he deserves . His blood is upon your head . By the same principle , your malice defeats itself ; for your censure is too violent . And yet ( looking to her with a leering smile ) she is the first woman in the world ...
... perhaps more than he deserves . His blood is upon your head . By the same principle , your malice defeats itself ; for your censure is too violent . And yet ( looking to her with a leering smile ) she is the first woman in the world ...
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... perhaps unnecessary severity ) if he sat next you . ' " In a party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , the ques- tion was discussed , whether drinking improved conversation and benevolence . Sir Joshua main- tained it did.-J. " No , sir : before ...
... perhaps unnecessary severity ) if he sat next you . ' " In a party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , the ques- tion was discussed , whether drinking improved conversation and benevolence . Sir Joshua main- tained it did.-J. " No , sir : before ...
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... Perhaps contempt : and , sir , it is not neces- sary to be drunk one's self , to relish the wit of drunkenness . Do we not judge of the drunken wit of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio , the most excellent in its kind , when we are ...
... Perhaps contempt : and , sir , it is not neces- sary to be drunk one's self , to relish the wit of drunkenness . Do we not judge of the drunken wit of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio , the most excellent in its kind , when we are ...
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Page 150 - Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Page 29 - No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 212 - 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 87 - Come, come, (said Garrick,) talk no more of that. You are perhaps, the worst — eh, eh!" — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, "Nay, you will always look like a gentleman; but I am talking of being well or ill drest.
Page 220 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 344 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
Page 192 - But is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. " So much so, sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it.
Page 104 - ... to his plate; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite; which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration was visible.
Page 321 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Page 104 - I never knew any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite: which was so fierce, and indulged with such...