The North American Miscellany, Volumen2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... taken a view of the great lexicographer's birth - place , and of Edial House where he first undertook his office of teacher . Porter told me that when he was first intro- duced to her mother his appearance was very forbidding ; he was ...
... taken a view of the great lexicographer's birth - place , and of Edial House where he first undertook his office of teacher . Porter told me that when he was first intro- duced to her mother his appearance was very forbidding ; he was ...
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... taken that it should be at Derby , for which place the bride and bridegroom set out on horseback , I suppose in very good humor . But , though Mr. Topham Beauclerk used archly to men- tion Johnson's having told him with much gravity ...
... taken that it should be at Derby , for which place the bride and bridegroom set out on horseback , I suppose in very good humor . But , though Mr. Topham Beauclerk used archly to men- tion Johnson's having told him with much gravity ...
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... - form afforded , was taken advantage of ; and the buckle of my belt , on that important occasion , was drawn at least two holes wanting to set Farmer Bradley straight with | adventures inseparable 6 THE BEST OF THREE .
... - form afforded , was taken advantage of ; and the buckle of my belt , on that important occasion , was drawn at least two holes wanting to set Farmer Bradley straight with | adventures inseparable 6 THE BEST OF THREE .
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... taken pris- oner , had retired upon head - quarters with- out loss , and taking with them a satisfactory report , such as it would have been my duty to make . The great duke himself was informed of the particulars of my escape ; and ...
... taken pris- oner , had retired upon head - quarters with- out loss , and taking with them a satisfactory report , such as it would have been my duty to make . The great duke himself was informed of the particulars of my escape ; and ...
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... taken of the stewardship of each of these heads of department ; and , if his par- ticular branch has not flourished - should the stock on hand be large and unsalable — the Buyer is called to account , and his situation jeopardized . The ...
... taken of the stewardship of each of these heads of department ; and , if his par- ticular branch has not flourished - should the stock on hand be large and unsalable — the Buyer is called to account , and his situation jeopardized . The ...
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Página 496 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 394 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Página 3 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Página 496 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Página 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Página 251 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página 248 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 128 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Página 231 - The Cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Página 250 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.