Mr. Boswell has been collecting materials for this work for more than twenty years, during which he was honoured with the intimate friendship of Dr. Johnson; to whose memory he is ambitious to erect a literary monument, worthy of so great an authour, and so excellent a man.

Happy the father that calls thee daughter, bella sposa, and most honored the mother that bare so excellent a child!

Even so excellent an Emperor as Trajan is said to have admitted "that no other prince had nearly equalled the praise of that period."

Dear Lord Byron, I have just received a letter from Mr. Moorethe subject of it is every way worthy of your usual liberalityand I had not a moment's hesitation in acceding to a proposal which enabled me in any way to join in assisting so excellent a fellow.

A melancholy instance of the depravity of human nature; as it shews, that neither the laws nor religion of any country, however excellent the forms of each, are sufficient to bind the consciences of some; but that there are always men, of every age, country, and persuasion, who are ready to sacrifice their dearest principles at the shrine of gain.

" "Excellent," approved Hauteville, and he bowed with grave friendliness as the detective left the room.

Thank heaven, Madam, for giving you so excellent a heart; ay, and so good a head.

But two months dead: Nay, not so much; not two, So excellent a King, that was to this Hiperion to a Satyre: so louing to my Mother, That he might not beteene the windes of heauen

At Sarra, in the lond of Tartarie, Ther dwelt a king that werreied Russie, Through which ther died many a doughty man: This noble king was cleped Cambuscan Which in his time was of so great renoun That ther n' as no wher in no regioun, So excellent a lord in alle thing: * * * *

And doe you hold it weakenesse then to love, And love so excellent a miracle As is a worthy woman?

And Hamburger adds: "Every lie, therefore, however excellent the motive, is decidedly forbidden....

It is a pity that so excellent an object as a brick chapel should be the evil genius of the play.

Andrea Barrofaldi did not let so excellent an opportunity to show his acquirements to the podestà go by neglected.

The magistrates were so careful, and preserved so excellent an order in the disposal of all sorts of provision, that no engrossing of corn could be practised, for the prices were every day directed at the town-house; and if any man offered to demand more money for corn than the stated price, he could not sell, because at the town store-house you might buy cheaper.

If this piece of imprudence does not spoil so excellent a Paper, I propose to myself the highest satisfaction in reading it with you, over a dish of tea, every morning next winter.

The two next in the following year were anonymous, the one A Congratulatory Epistle to Admiral Keppel on his Acquittal; the other An Essay on the Ancient Greek Model (as he called it) to Bishop Lowth, remonstrating against the contention which the bishop had entered into with Warburton, and which he thought unworthy so excellent a prelate.

Shortly afterwards, as he was urging and threatening, Scaevinus remarked, with a quiet smile, "that nobody knew more about the matter than he did himself, and that he had better show his gratitude to so excellent a prince by telling all he knew."

General Oglethorpe, a man who had distinguished himself by his taste for great designs, by his zeal for his country, and his passion for glory, was fixed upon to direct these public finances, and to carry into execution so excellent a project.

This excellent ladyevidently a near relation to Mrs. General in Little Dorritreintroduces us to the genteel society in which we are most at home; and here I may remark that the love of aristocracy which is so marked and so amiable a feature of our national character finds its expression not only in the advertisement columns, but in the daily notices of deaths and marriages.

It's wonderful how little you can work with and how excellent the results.

As Pamfilo has told us so excellent a tale about the force of love, said Filomena, I will now relate a story showing the great power of friendship.

The business of tracking as may be conceived, is extremely fatiguing and dangerous: in fact, so excellent a test does it furnish of the muscular powers and courage of man, that the heads of the Mallah tribes require that each Mallah should make three trips to Bagdad, as a tracker, before he can be qualified for the married state and the care of a family.

The puns are nine in ten goodmany excellent the Newgatory transcendent.

So quick are the proceedings and so excellent the arrangements of Martial commerce, even where ladies are concerned, that a couple of hours saw us on our way homeward, after having passed through the apartments of half the merchants in Altasfe.

And shall I not try the virtue I intended, upon full proof, to reward, because her father is a tyrant?Why art thou thus eternally reflecting upon so excellent a woman, as if thou wert assured she would fail in the trial?Nay, thou declarest, every time thou writest on the subject, that she will, that she must yield, entangled as she is: and yet makest her virtue the pretence of thy solicitude for her.