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...l, that didn’t make one any the less sorry. Here lies the duck that Samuel Johnson sat on, eh? I was big for my age.” “Then we had canaries,” he conti... ...e score of business. “What a splendid fellow he is!” said Richard. “Always keen on something.” “Yes,” said Helen, “he’s always been like that.” “This ... ...ut little difference in the ap- pearance either of Ridley or Rachel; yet a keen observer might have thought that the girl was more definite and self-c... ... practically indistinguishable from a born gentleman, showed his origin to keen eyes in an impeccable neatness of dress, lack of freedom in manner, ex... ...he daughters too!” She smiled sympathetically, and at the same time rather keenly, at Rachel. “They seem to find a great deal to say to each other,” s... ...h? You should read Balzac. Then we come to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Pope, Johnson, Addison, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats. One thing leads to another. W... ...” “The Speech on the American Revolution?” he asked. He looked at her very keenly again. “Another young man at the dance?” “No. That was Mr. Dalloway,... ...Rachel had to kneel on the floor, fitting the eyes to the hooks. “Our Miss Johnson used to find life very unsatisfactory, I remember,” Miss Allan cont... ...rs. Hunt and Rachel, and carry on a tea-party including the Rev. Will- iam Johnson and Miss Macquoid, the Christian Scientists, with remarkable likene...

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...lf, that majestic lady; the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Doctor Johnson, the correspon- dent of Mrs. Chapone herself. “The girls were up at... ...n proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley’s, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson’s Dictionary—the interesting work which she invariably pre- sented ... ...ng Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, the Lexicographer’s name was always on the lips of this ... ...; and Becky, Becky Sharp, here’s a book for you that my sister—that is, I —Johnson’s Dixonary, you know; you mustn’t leave us without that. Good-by. D... ...xecuting her threats with regard to Miss Sharp; for though nothing is more keen, nor more common, nor more justifiable, than maternal jealousy, yet sh... ...n boy the lattice pass’d, And, as he mark’d its cheerful glow, Felt doubly keen 38 V anity Fair – V olume One the midnight blast, And doubly cold the... ... himself with much naivete; and in so doing, caught Miss Sharp’s eye fixed keenly upon him, at which he blushed a little, and Rebecca thought in her h... ...lessly pushed out her hand at this appeal; but she felt the desertion most keenly for all that, and bitterly, bitterly moaned the fickleness of her Ma... ... no questions asked.” This praise and confidence smote Dobbin’s heart very keenly. Every moment the colloquy continued in this tone, he felt more and ...

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...ill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the... ...ear relation to something within his mind. Very soon, however, his look became keen and penetrative. A writhing horror twisted itself across his featu... ...ture of King’s Chapel has since been built. It the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson’s home field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up se... ... to the broad, flat, armorial tombstone of a departed worthy — perhaps of Isaac Johnson himself — she be gan to dance upon it. In reply to her mother’...

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...at of the young one, open, handsome, and ingenuous. The old man’ s eye was keen with the twinklings of avarice and cunning; the young man’s bright wit... ...may be to lookers- 31 Charles Dickens on, none ever feel it with half the keenness or acuteness of perfection with which it strikes to the very soul ... ... Nicholas. ‘What of that? Porson was an odd-looking man, and so was Doctor Johnson; all these bookworms are.’ ‘At eight o’clock tomorrow morning, Mr N... ...ppearance was so extremely peculiar, that Nicholas, who had a sufficiently keen sense of the ridicu- lous, could not refrain from breaking into a smil... ... a great deal of snow fell from time to time; and the wind was intolerably keen. Mr Squeers got down at almost every stage—to stretch his legs as he s... ...d to be busy in arranging the table, glanced at the letters with a look so keen, and yet so dispirited and hopeless, that Nicholas could hardly bear t... ...for- tunes which he was not at liberty to explain, and bearing the name of Johnson. That Mrs Kenwigs, impelled by gratitude, or ambition, or maternal ... ...et conference with Mr Kenwigs, and had finally returned to propose that Mr Johnson should instruct the four Miss Kenwigses in the French language as s... ... inge- nious resemblance of red wafers set in blacking. ‘How do you do, Mr Johnson?’ said Mrs Kenwigs. ‘Uncle— Mr Johnson.’ ‘How do you do, sir?’ said...

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...here his few peaceful days Time had swept o’er, There his worn bosom and keen eye would melt Over the innocence of that sweet child, His only ... ... Learn’d, pious, temperate in love and wine; But, his life falling into Johnson’s way, We ‘re told this great high priest of all the Nine W... ...each trace — More like and like to Lambro’s aspect grew — With all his keen worn look and Grecian grace; And starting, she awoke, and what t... ...ds but few. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Seven” 178 ‘Your names?’— ‘Mine ‘s Johnson, and my comrade ‘s Juan; The other two are women, and the thi... ...s who resisted, battering The armies of the Christian Empress Catherine. Johnson, who knew by this long colloquy Himself a favourite, ventured... ...d such was Suwarrow. He said,— and in the kindest Calmuck tone,— ‘Why, Johnson, what the devil do you mean By bringing women here? They shall ... ...ll. However, the poor jackals are less foul (As being the brave lions’ keen providers) Than human insects, catering for spiders. Raise but a... ...an and master too—their places. There were some hunters bold, and coursers keen, Whose hounds ne’er err’d, nor greyhounds deign’d to lurch; So... ...ut this of mine, to—not defend. 338 There were but two exceptions to this keen Skirmish of wits o’er the departed; one Aurora, with her pure ...

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... on this recommendation. ‘Definitions!’ said Charles, contemptuously. ‘Dr. Johnson must be the hand for them.’ ‘They are just the definitions not to b... ...t be the hand for them.’ ‘They are just the definitions not to be found in Johnson,’ said Mr. Thorndale. ‘Our standing specimen is adversity, which ma... ...n everything. I wonder if it is part of his musical tem- perament to be as keenly alive to all around, as his ear is to 67 Yo n g e every note. A bri... ...t—impossible, you know; I’d give ten pounds to know what has vexed him. So keen as he was about it last night, and I vow, one of the best riders in th... ...a struggle with temptation fruitless, while his high spirits and powers of keen enjoyment increased the peril of recklessness in the reaction. It was ... ... to his sister had been in question, he would never have trifled about it. Keenly alive to his cousin’s injustice, he re- joiced in having provoked an... ... bitten, and now and then, when he trusted himself to reply, it was with a keen, sharp power of rebuke that made people look round, astonished to hear...

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...o a sense of their rights, and of the injustice done them. Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where th... ...:— “This may certify, that I joined together in holy matri- mony Frederick Johnson* and Anna Murray, as man and wife, in the presence of Mr. David Rug... ... to *She was free. *I had changed my name from Frederick Bailey to that of Johnson. 89 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass pay when we got to... .... Upon reach- ing New Bedford, we were directed to the house of Mr. Nathan Johnson, by whom we were kindly received, and hospitably provided for. Both... ...om we were kindly received, and hospitably provided for. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson took a deep and lively interest in our welfare. They proved them- s... ...our baggage as security for the debt. I had but to mention the fact to Mr. Johnson, and he forthwith advanced the money. We now began to feel a degree...

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...urderous envy that Siegfried smites him with Nothung and slays him, to the keen satisfaction of the hid- den Alberic. Caring nothing for the gold, whi... ... orchestra, and feel them through the infection of passionate emotion. Dr. Johnson kicking the stone to confute Berkeley is not more bent on common-se...

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...ou. Even Plato and Boswell, as the dramatists who invented Socrates and Dr Johnson, impress me more deeply than the romantic playwrights. Ever since, ... ...nknown gentleman. Ramsden makes a frantic demonstration; but Violet’s cool keen anger extinguishes it. VIOLET. You! Oh, how infamous! how abominable! ... ... The most jealous rival of my mistress never saw every blemish in her more keenly than I. I was not duped: I took her without chloroform. ANA. But you...

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... her husband, in his usurious business. She was a resolute, clear-sighted, keen woman, that did not love money, but loved to be rich and push her way ... ...sixpence. He little knew that the names of those two young men were—Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage.) 159 Thackeray ANOTHER LAST CHAPTER. MR. HAYES...

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...h human science; has a far firmer hold upon the tiller of his story; has a keen sense of character, which he draws (and Scott often does so too) in a ... ... of his nature into his work, and impregnate it from end to end. If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswe... ...da was regarded by his schol- ars as a laughing-stock. The schoolboy has a keen sense of humour. Heroes he learns to understand and to admire in books... ...een Dutch teachers admitted into Nangasaki, and the coun- try at large was keen for the new learning. But though the renaissance had begun, it was imp... ...until they were fast friends. For picklocks the Prior of Paray professed a keen curiosity; but T abary, upon some late alarm, had thrown all his into ... ...yond the reach of want, before writing the Old Vagabond or Jacques. Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, “was a great arguer for the... ...and retained, after death, the art of making friends, Montaigne and Samuel Johnson certainly stand first. But we have portraits of all sorts of men, f... ...s hence is unmistakable. He de- sires that dear, though unknown, gentleman keenly to realise his predecessor; to remember why a passage was uncleanly ...

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... astonish us by sallies, witty, innocent and inhumane; and by a misapplied Johnsonian pleasantry, demolish honest sentiment. I can still see and hear ... ...d banished these boyish recollections from his heart. Indeed, he was a man keenly alive to the beauty of all that was bygone. He abounded in old stori... ...came to him unaware. CHAPTER X TALK AND TALKERS Sir, we had a good talk. – Johnson. As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle ... ...ber four different passages which I heard, before I was ten, with the same keen and lasting pleasure. One I discovered long afterwards to be the admi-... ...on of a real series of events or of an imaginary series. Boswell’s Life of Johnson (a work of cunning and inimitable art) owes its success to the same...