Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 1
... means of getting money by flattery . I. D'Israeli in his Calami- ties of Authors , i . 64 , says : - ' Fuller's Church History is disgraced by twelve particular dedications . It was an expedient to procure dedication fees ; for ...
... means of getting money by flattery . I. D'Israeli in his Calami- ties of Authors , i . 64 , says : - ' Fuller's Church History is disgraced by twelve particular dedications . It was an expedient to procure dedication fees ; for ...
Stran 2
... means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him when I had any thing worthy of communicating . I generally kept copies of my letters to him , that I might have a full view of our ...
... means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him when I had any thing worthy of communicating . I generally kept copies of my letters to him , that I might have a full view of our ...
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... mean minds to venture themselves within the sphere of greatness . ' In the court that Boswell many years later paid to Lord Lonsdale , he suf- fered all the humiliations that the brutality of this petty greatness can inflict . Letters ...
... mean minds to venture themselves within the sphere of greatness . ' In the court that Boswell many years later paid to Lord Lonsdale , he suf- fered all the humiliations that the brutality of this petty greatness can inflict . Letters ...
Stran 11
... mean to be serious , I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society , as he has been . Three or four nations have expelled him ; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country " . BOSWELL ...
... mean to be serious , I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society , as he has been . Three or four nations have expelled him ; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country " . BOSWELL ...
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... means of knowing , not less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . proportioned to his income ...
... means of knowing , not less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . proportioned to his income ...
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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...