Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 41
... dined with Johnson , who seemed cold and indif- ferent , and scarce said anything to me ; perhaps he has heard what I said of his Shakespeare , or rather was offended at what I wrote to him- as he pleases . ' Wooll's Warton , p . 312 ...
... dined with Johnson , who seemed cold and indif- ferent , and scarce said anything to me ; perhaps he has heard what I said of his Shakespeare , or rather was offended at what I wrote to him- as he pleases . ' Wooll's Warton , p . 312 ...
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... I am really the great man now . I have had David Hume in the forenoon , and Mr. Johnson in the afternoon of the same day , visiting me . Sir J. Pringle and Dr. Franklin dined with 60 Popular liberty . [ A.D. 1768 . quite satisfied quite.
... I am really the great man now . I have had David Hume in the forenoon , and Mr. Johnson in the afternoon of the same day , visiting me . Sir J. Pringle and Dr. Franklin dined with 60 Popular liberty . [ A.D. 1768 . quite satisfied quite.
Stran 68
... dined out . He appeared to be deeply engaged in some literary work . Miss Williams was now with him at Oxford . BOSWELL . It was more likely the state of his health which kept him at home . Writing from Oxford on June 27 of this year to ...
... dined out . He appeared to be deeply engaged in some literary work . Miss Williams was now with him at Oxford . BOSWELL . It was more likely the state of his health which kept him at home . Writing from Oxford on June 27 of this year to ...
Stran 73
... dined together at the Mitre . I attempted to argue for the superior happiness of the savage life , upon the usual fanciful topicks . JOHNSON . ' Sir , there can be nothing more false . The savages have no bodily advantages beyond those ...
... dined together at the Mitre . I attempted to argue for the superior happiness of the savage life , upon the usual fanciful topicks . JOHNSON . ' Sir , there can be nothing more false . The savages have no bodily advantages beyond those ...
Stran 94
... dined lately at Foote's , who shewed me a letter which he had received from Tom Davies , telling him that he had not ... dined , however . We dine , unless the blow comes very , very near the heart indeed . ' Macaulay's Life , ii . 287 ...
... dined lately at Foote's , who shewed me a letter which he had received from Tom Davies , telling him that he had not ... dined , however . We dine , unless the blow comes very , very near the heart indeed . ' Macaulay's Life , ii . 287 ...
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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...