Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... - dition . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . II I.
... - dition . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . II I.
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... believe the scriptures , because he could not read them in the original tongues , and be sure that they were not invented . ' Why , foolish fellow , ( said Johnson , ) has he any better authority for almost every thing that he believes ...
... believe the scriptures , because he could not read them in the original tongues , and be sure that they were not invented . ' Why , foolish fellow , ( said Johnson , ) has he any better authority for almost every thing that he believes ...
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... to Temple in 1775 - ' You are very kind in saying that I may overtake you in learning . Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 181 . ' You 22 The choice of a Profession . [ A.D. 1766.
... to Temple in 1775 - ' You are very kind in saying that I may overtake you in learning . Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 181 . ' You 22 The choice of a Profession . [ A.D. 1766.
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... believe him to be pros- perous . I shall be glad to hear the same of you , for I am , Sir , ' Your affectionate humble servant , ' Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 , 1767 . ' TO THE SAME . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' SIR , ' I ...
... believe him to be pros- perous . I shall be glad to hear the same of you , for I am , Sir , ' Your affectionate humble servant , ' Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 , 1767 . ' TO THE SAME . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' ' SIR , ' I ...
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... believe you may receive some intelligence from Mrs. Baker , of the theatre , whose letter I received at the same time with yours ; and to whom , if you see her , you will make my excuse for the seeming neglect of answering her ...
... believe you may receive some intelligence from Mrs. Baker , of the theatre , whose letter I received at the same time with yours ; and to whom , if you see her , you will make my excuse for the seeming neglect of answering her ...
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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...