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once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Stanza 9 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell A lawyer...

of the English Poets (1781), "The Life of Gray" Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him "a dull fellow." BOSWELL. "I...

contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner. Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1755). A man may...

irremediable doubt as to them all. James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), p. 490. Dr. Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity...

is a more safe inspirer of social joy. James Boswell, Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763. James Boswell, Frederick Albert Pottle. Yale University Press...

don't choose to have it known. Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage. Detached Thoughts, first...

reported in James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1776). Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. Ben Jonson, The Poetaster (1601), Act V, scene 3. The most important...

James Boswell, letter to David Garrick, in Letters of James Boswell, ed. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Vol. I (1924), p. 184 There's nae luck about the house...

literary Club to me. James Boswell, Letters of James Boswell, Addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple (1857) The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence...

one idea, and that is a wrong one, Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell), Volume iii, Chapter v (1770). Compare Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, book...

to a lady who complained of his having talked little in company. See Boswell's Life of Johnson (1773). And let him be sure to leave other men their turns...

Gandhi's personal secretary. He has variously been described as "Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi's Buddha"...

Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1763). For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady, Are sisters under their skins. Rudyard Kipling...

like Boswell, Wilde is one of the happy few who do not need the approval of the critic, nor even, sometimes, the approval of the reader, for the pleasure...

his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. George B. Hill...

we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol. II, 18 April 1775, p. 258. Knowledge...

Parody of the style of Thomas Warton. See Croker's note to Boswell's Life of Johnson (18 September 1777), also in Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes. The essence of...

the nap takes me. Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1775). O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the...

Ed. See Boswell's Life of Johnson (1754). Nosse velint omnes, mercedem solvere nemo. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. Juvenal...

Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1763). What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. Samuel Johnson, The Idler, No...