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" ... dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. ' Sir, (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 442
by James Boswell - 1807
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Selections from Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution,...I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." — Vol. IV, p. 200. 1 This prayer was composed at a time when Johnson "purposed to apply vigorously...
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The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins

John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...into the thickest part of the battle." " Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." * In a remark which he made on another...
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"Polly Peachum": Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (duchess of Bolton) and ...

Charles E. Pearce - 1913 - 492 pages
...often to agitate my nerves, painfully producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." Boswell received from the Sage the crushing retort: " Sir, I should never hear it if it made me such...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution,...should never hear it. if it made me such a fool." I talked to him of misery being "the doom of man," in this life, as displayed in his Vanity of Human...
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Pebbles on the Shore

Alfred George Gardiner - 1917 - 296 pages
...apologies. And so when he has been expressing his emotions on hearing music. "Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool," Once indeed he rebelled. It was when they were dining with a company at Sir Joshua Reynolds's. Johnson...
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English Studies, Volumes 6-7

Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...'I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool !" Later, Boswell records.an incident that occurred near the close of Johnson's life. "Mr. Langton...
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English Lyric in the Age of Reason

Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.' " ' The difference between Goldsmith's and Johnson's attitude to music goes far to explain their different...
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Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell, the Biographer, Based Largely on ...

Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetick dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution,...inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." Boswell was plainly right in calling this "romantic." If Rousseau had written the sentence, or Berlioz,...
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Gay's Beggar's Opera: Its Content, History & Influence

William Eben Schultz, Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) - 1923 - 450 pages
...rustic dolefulness, according to their subject. Boswell testifies as to the connotation of Gay's tunes: Much of the effect of musick, I am satisfied, is owing to the association of ideas. . . . And I know from my own experience, that Scotch reels, though 1 brisk, make me melancholy. . ....
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 214

1923 - 896 pages
...so painfully " as to produce now pathetic dejection and now daring resolution," Johnson said, " Sir, I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." His imperfect sight rendered him insensible to painting and indifferent to scenery. When he gave Boswell...
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