Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 10
... asked him whether he had ever sub- mitted to it . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ...
... asked him whether he had ever sub- mitted to it . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ...
Stran 26
... asked Mrs. Williams whether it was not his . ' Sir , ( said she , with some warmth , ) I wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . ' I , however , was so much impressed with my first notion , that I ...
... asked Mrs. Williams whether it was not his . ' Sir , ( said she , with some warmth , ) I wrote that poem before I had the honour of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance . ' I , however , was so much impressed with my first notion , that I ...
Stran 35
... asked him if he was not fond of going thither . To which Johnson answered , that he was indeed fond of going to Oxford sometimes , but was likewise glad to come back again . The King then asked him what they were doing at Oxford ...
... asked him if he was not fond of going thither . To which Johnson answered , that he was indeed fond of going to Oxford sometimes , but was likewise glad to come back again . The King then asked him what they were doing at Oxford ...
Stran 37
... asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , ' Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of them calls names best . ' The King was pleased to say he was ...
... asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , ' Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of them calls names best . ' The King was pleased to say he was ...
Stran 38
... asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill 2 . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a ...
... asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill 2 . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a ...
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Stran 317 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Stran 78 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the coppers.
Stran 338 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Stran 3 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 119 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Stran 360 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Stran 313 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Stran 84 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Stran 321 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Stran 446 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...