 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 pagina’s
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that...it had been observed, that scarce any man dies in public but with apparent resolution ; from that desire of praise which never quits us. I said, Dr.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pagina’s
...164. ' "The horror of death which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson appeared strong to-night. . . . He said he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." — Boswell's Johnson, iii. 153. every life there are certain pauses and interruptions, which force... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pagina’s
...164. * "The horror of death which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson appeared strong to-night. , . . He said he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." — Boswell's Johnson, iii. 153. every life there are certain pauses and interruptions, which force... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him that I had been for moments in my life not afraid of he best comedy that had appeared since " The Provoked Husband," and that there had not been of [1777which death was not terrible to him." He added, that it had been observed, that scarce any man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...strong to-night. I ventured to tell him that I had been for moments in my life not afraid ofdeath ; public but with apparent resolution ; from that desire of praise which never quits us. I said, Dr Dodd... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pagina’s
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments of my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that...to him." He added, that it had been observed, that almost no man dies in publick, but with apparent resolution ; from that desire of praise which never... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him that I had been for moments in my life not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that...it had been observed, that scarce any man dies in public but with apparent resolution ; from that desire of praise which never quits us. I said, Dr.... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 pagina’s
...been to escape from Itself. Nevertheless, though utterly fearless by nature, Johnson declares he hai " never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him- He trembles lest in the awful day of doom he may be among the damned. He suffers God's terrors with a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pagina’s
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments of my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that...to him." He added, that it had been observed, that almost no man dies in publick, but with apparent resolution ; from that desire of praise which never... | |
 | Edgar Vine Hall - 1912 - 264 pagina’s
...felt, and at times expressed, fear and horror of death in a degree to which most men are strangers. He said " he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." But toward the end this horror abated, so that there is a peculiar beauty in the opening of his will,... | |
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The horror of death, which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson, appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable... 
