Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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... wish you could have read the book before it was printed , but our distance does not easily permit it.'6 Printing began in June 1774 , and references to its progress occur in the Welsh Diary and later in the same year.8 The book was ...
... wish you could have read the book before it was printed , but our distance does not easily permit it.'6 Printing began in June 1774 , and references to its progress occur in the Welsh Diary and later in the same year.8 The book was ...
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... wish I may be able to settle to it . ' On 10 May he wrote more doubtfully : " I have not written out another line of my Remarks on the Hebrides . I found it impossible to do it in London . Besides Dr. Johnson does not seem very desirous ...
... wish I may be able to settle to it . ' On 10 May he wrote more doubtfully : " I have not written out another line of my Remarks on the Hebrides . I found it impossible to do it in London . Besides Dr. Johnson does not seem very desirous ...
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... wish . was originally excited ; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey , by finding in Mr. Bos- well a companion , whose acuteness would help my inquiry , and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of ...
... wish . was originally excited ; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey , by finding in Mr. Bos- well a companion , whose acuteness would help my inquiry , and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of ...
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... wishes , having reason to be highly pleased with the attention that was paid us . But who- ever surveys the world ... wishes . ABERBROTHICK . As we knew sorrow and wishes to be vain , it was now our business to mind our way . The roads ...
... wishes , having reason to be highly pleased with the attention that was paid us . But who- ever surveys the world ... wishes . ABERBROTHICK . As we knew sorrow and wishes to be vain , it was now our business to mind our way . The roads ...
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... all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms , whether wished or not , will sometimes happen , happen , I may say , without violation of humanity 16 A JOURNEY TO THE.
... all the terrifick grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms , whether wished or not , will sometimes happen , happen , I may say , without violation of humanity 16 A JOURNEY TO THE.
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Page 132 - 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.
Page 133 - 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. That 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...
Page 176 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 33 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 168 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Page 220 - ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Page 181 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 340 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 1 - I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey by finding in Mr Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Page 41 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.