The British Essayists, Nide 27Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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acquaintance admiration amusements appear assure atheism attention beauty behaviour BELPHEGOR Berkshire called champaign character CLARINDA confess considered crowd Cuckold desire doubt dress drink effeminacy endeavour entertainment Epaminondas eyes false friend Farinelli farther fashion favour Fitz-Adam folly fortune French frequently gentlemen give happened happy Harlequin HEARER heart highwayman hint honour hope humble servant husband imagine labour lady language late least less letter lived look lord Luke Hansard mankind manner master means ment metropolis mind moral nature neral never obliged observe occasion opinion paper particular passion perhaps person Plato pleasure polite present pretty racter readers reason received romantic love seems shew stept sure surprized talked taste tell thing thought THURSDAY tincture tion town transubstanti TRUNCHEON truth tural virtue whole wine woman words XXVII
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Sivu 95 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Sivu 243 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Sivu 254 - ... fill that great and arduous post, and I hereby declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more, I will not only obey him like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair, but no longer. More than this he cannot well require; for, I presume,...
Sivu 258 - I comprehend all fine gentlemen too, not knowing in truth where to place them properly, is vastly obliged, or vastly offended, vastly glad, or vastly sorry. Large objects are vastly great, small ones are vastly little; and I had lately the pleasure to hear a fine woman pronounce, by a happy metonymy, a very small gold snuff-box that was produced in company to be vastly pretty, because it was vastly little.
Sivu 251 - ... to speak and write it grammatically and correctly: and I have as long wished that either some one person of distinguished abilities would undertake the work singly, or that a certain number of gentlemen would form themselves, or be formed by the government, into a society for that purpose. The late ingenious doctor Swift proposed a plan of this nature to his friend (as he thought him) the lord treasurer...
Sivu 258 - I assisted at the birth of that most significant word Flirtation, which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world, and which has since received the sanction of our most accurate Laureat in one of his comedies.....
Sivu 99 - that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love if they had never heard talk of it.
Sivu 258 - ... accurate Laureat in one of his comedies..... Some inattentive and undiscerning people have, I know, taken it to be a term synonymous with coquetry ; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only the first hints of approximation, which subsequent coquetry may reduce to those preliminary articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty.
Sivu 242 - Italian opera be accused of any thing of this kind ? Certainly not. Were, what is called the poetry of it intelligible in itself, it would not be understood by one in fifty of a British audience : but I believe that even an Italian of common candour will confess, that he does not understand one word of it.
Sivu 253 - The time for discrimination seems to be now come. Toleration, adoption, and naturalization, have run their lengths. Good order and authority are now necessary. But where shall we find them, and at the same time the obedience due to them"? We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confusion, and choose a dictator. Upon this principle I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post.