The Greatest Book in the World: And Other PapersLittle, Brown, 1925 - 451 sivua |
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... Johnson , " People seldom read a book which is given to them . . . The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price . " " A man will even write books to get money to buy books . " -HENRY WARD BEECHER The End of all Scribblement is ...
... Johnson , " People seldom read a book which is given to them . . . The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price . " " A man will even write books to get money to buy books . " -HENRY WARD BEECHER The End of all Scribblement is ...
Sivu xiii
... " might easily be incorporated into the body of the text TITLE - PAGE OF " RASSELAS " ( 1768 ) . 17 GOUGH SQUARE · 60 • the famous house in which Dr. Johnson wrote the Dictionary 6889 58 68 HOUSE ( NOW DESTROYED ) IN BOLT COURT .
... " might easily be incorporated into the body of the text TITLE - PAGE OF " RASSELAS " ( 1768 ) . 17 GOUGH SQUARE · 60 • the famous house in which Dr. Johnson wrote the Dictionary 6889 58 68 HOUSE ( NOW DESTROYED ) IN BOLT COURT .
Sivu xiv
... Johnson died A PART OF THE FLOOR OF THE POETS ' CORNER IN WEST- MINSTER ABBEY after a drawing by Gosden 722 AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY GILBERT THE ROYAL COBURG THEATRE - NOW THE " OLD VIC " 80 in the Waterloo Road at the New Cut SIR ...
... Johnson died A PART OF THE FLOOR OF THE POETS ' CORNER IN WEST- MINSTER ABBEY after a drawing by Gosden 722 AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY GILBERT THE ROYAL COBURG THEATRE - NOW THE " OLD VIC " 80 in the Waterloo Road at the New Cut SIR ...
Sivu 57
... Johnson after his death , because I like to pass and frequently enter the one quaint old tavern which remains exactly as most London taverns were a century or two ago , and because tradition says that Goldsmith lived in this court when ...
... Johnson after his death , because I like to pass and frequently enter the one quaint old tavern which remains exactly as most London taverns were a century or two ago , and because tradition says that Goldsmith lived in this court when ...
Sivu 58
... Johnson's mother by the price of Rasselas , written for the pious purpose of laying her head decently and honourably in the dust . ' 99 Get someone with a good voice to read aloud the opening paragraph : read it if possible out of the ...
... Johnson's mother by the price of Rasselas , written for the pious purpose of laying her head decently and honourably in the dust . ' 99 Get someone with a good voice to read aloud the opening paragraph : read it if possible out of the ...
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Sivu 107 - When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
Sivu 35 - And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from John o...
Sivu 363 - I have long determined that the best thing I could do was to put an end to the existence of a being whose birth was unfortunate,* and whose life has only been a series of pain to those persons who have hurt their health in endeavouring to promote her welfare.
Sivu 30 - Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Sivu 85 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Sivu 34 - Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
Sivu 93 - Not exactly Nahant," said Uncle Edith, "but within hailing distance of a Nahanted ship." "You just used Nahant in the first place so that you could pull that gag," said Primrose, who, up to this time, had taken no part in the conversation, not having been born.
Sivu 112 - You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies, and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. And...
Sivu 341 - College, who lives upon arsenic, aqua-fortis, half-an-hour's sleep in the night, and is desperately in love with the memory of Margaret Nicholson. He hath published what he terms the Posthumous Poems, printed for the benefit of Mr. Peter Finnerty, which, I am grieved to say, though stuffed full of treason...
Sivu 197 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.