Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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Stran x
... copies sufficiently good to be treasured . One studies the subject to learn that Reynolds in practice had restlessly empirical habits , and the consequence is that not a few of his paintings have lost a great deal of their original ...
... copies sufficiently good to be treasured . One studies the subject to learn that Reynolds in practice had restlessly empirical habits , and the consequence is that not a few of his paintings have lost a great deal of their original ...
Stran xi
... copy , is like what we commonly find on prints of the period : - ' Publisht as the Act directs , at the Blew Pidgins , Gt . Queen St .; 3s . ' The Johnsonian of whom I pretend to know most is an imaginary creature , knowing so little of ...
... copy , is like what we commonly find on prints of the period : - ' Publisht as the Act directs , at the Blew Pidgins , Gt . Queen St .; 3s . ' The Johnsonian of whom I pretend to know most is an imaginary creature , knowing so little of ...
Stran xiii
... copies would have been published if it had been found to be possible . Either in jest or in earnest the Immortal was always in love , and there was probably more of reality in these early affairs than in others of which we are told ...
... copies would have been published if it had been found to be possible . Either in jest or in earnest the Immortal was always in love , and there was probably more of reality in these early affairs than in others of which we are told ...
Stran xxi
... we publish is from a copy of the original by Henry Edridge , A.R.A. ( 1769- 1821 ) . Vol . III . i . Favourite Sitters.- ' In Sir Joshua Reynolds's studio , classes and opinions cross each other oddly . PREFACE xxi Vol. II. ...
... we publish is from a copy of the original by Henry Edridge , A.R.A. ( 1769- 1821 ) . Vol . III . i . Favourite Sitters.- ' In Sir Joshua Reynolds's studio , classes and opinions cross each other oddly . PREFACE xxi Vol. II. ...
Stran xxii
... copy which somebody's hand has supplied . ( Solomon Williams pinx .; Jas . Parker sc . ) The said Solomon Williams was a ' foundation member ' of the Royal Hibernian Academy , and therefore a compatriot and contemporary of Mr. Campbell ...
... copy which somebody's hand has supplied . ( Solomon Williams pinx .; Jas . Parker sc . ) The said Solomon Williams was a ' foundation member ' of the Royal Hibernian Academy , and therefore a compatriot and contemporary of Mr. Campbell ...
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Stran 171 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Stran 206 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Stran 148 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Stran 206 - ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native...
Stran 154 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Stran 204 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Stran 6 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Stran 202 - It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of anarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade, many words and expressions have been imported, adopted, and naturalized from other languages, which have greatly enriched our own. Let it...
Stran 5 - The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Stran 30 - Having imagined that his brother had hid some apples behind a large folio upon an upper shelf in his father's shop, he climbed up to search for them. There were no apples; but the large folio proved to be Petrarch, whom he had seen mentioned, in some preface, as one of tho restorers of learning. His curiosity having been thus excited, he sat down with avidity, and read a great part of the book. What he read during these two years, he told me, was not works of mere amusement, ' not voyages and travels,...