Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
Most of the personages mentioned are described in the notes of John Wilson Croker's Letters to and from the Countess of Suffolk . The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. by F. Elrington Ball , Vol. Haywood have writ the progress of it." Haywood characterized in the terms quoted above. Elwin and Courthope's Pope, III, 279. Mr.
So I piled at least twenty chosen volumes on the table at the head of my bed, and I daresay it was nigh daylight when I fell asleep. I began my entertainment with several pages from Keightley's "Fairy Mythology," and followed it up with random bits from Crofton Croker's "Traditions of the South of Ireland," Mrs.
Natus in Hibernia Forniae Longfordiensis, In loco cui nomen Pallas, Nov. xxix. MDCCXXXI.; Eblanse literis institutus; Obiit Londini, April iv. The following translation is from Croker's edition of Boswell's Johnson: OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Therefore he returned to Norwich, and having there learned Mary's address, now found himself in her presence at Croker's Hall. Mr Whittlestaff, when he heard John Gordon's name, was as much astonished as had been Mary herself. Here was Mary's lover, the very man whom Mary had named to him.
When sheriff depute of Perthshire, he found upon reflection, that he had decided a poor man's case erroneously; and as the only remedy, supplied the litigant privately with money to carry the suit to the supreme court, where his judgment was reversed. Croker's Boswell, p. 280. 'Non illic urbes, non tu mirabere silvas: Una est injusti caerula forma maris. Ovid. Amor. L. II. El. xi.
Two very different things for our friends the "sea-gentlemen," as to colour as well as in other ways. In his own home, for instance, a lobster is of various beautiful shades of blue and purple. In Mr. Croker's home he would be bright scarlet from boiling! So would the prawn, and as solid as you please; who in his own home is colourless and transparent as any ghost.
'The colony of Leuchars is a vain imagination concerning a certain fleet of Danes wrecked on Sheughy Dikes. WALTER SCOTT. 'The fishing people on that coast have, however, all the appearance of being a different race from the inland population, and their dialect has many peculiarities. LOCKHART. Croker's Boswell, p. 286.
Johnson must have shortened his life by the bleedings that he underwent. How many they were cannot be known, for no doubt he was often bled when he has left no record of it. The following, however, I have noted. I do not know that he was bled more than most people of his time. Dr. Taylor, it should seem, underwent the operation every quarter. Dec. 1755. Thrice. 54 ounces. Croker's Boswell, p. 100.
Croker's editions, 'had taken a chair' is changed into 'had taken the chair, and additional emphasis is given by printing these four words in italics. The hostess must have suffered, for, according to Miss Burney, 'Lord Harcourt said, "Mrs.
Croker, who knew him, says that 'he was very convivial, and in other respects like his father though altogether on a smaller scale. He edited a new edition of Malone's Shakespeare. He died in 1822. Croker's Boswell, p. 620. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 30, 1773. Ib. Nov. 1. Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking