The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 من الصفحات |
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afterwards ancient appeared asked believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle conversation dined dinner Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary Inverness island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson journey kind King Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird learning lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Lord Monboddo M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod Macdonald Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned MʻQueen miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed opinion passed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect Samuel Johnson Scotland second sight servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan spirit stone suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought tion Tobermorie told took Tour walked Whig wish write young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 28 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. ' Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it.
الصفحة 117 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
الصفحة 9 - 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.
الصفحة 42 - Then, sir, let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known...
الصفحة 26 - 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.
الصفحة 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
الصفحة 67 - But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars.
الصفحة 232 - In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When...
الصفحة 225 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that is to say, if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras...