Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... 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 correspondence , and never be at a loss to under- stand any reference in ...
... 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 correspondence , and never be at a loss to under- stand any reference in ...
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... never excel . ' I talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and 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 ...
... never excel . ' I talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and 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 ...
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... never can know they are right , but must submit themselves to the learned . ' JOHNSON . ' To be sure , Sir . The vulgar are the children of the State , and must be taught like children " . BOSWELL . ' Then , Sir , a poor Turk must be a ...
... never can know they are right , but must submit themselves to the learned . ' JOHNSON . ' To be sure , Sir . The vulgar are the children of the State , and must be taught like children " . BOSWELL . ' Then , Sir , a poor Turk must be a ...
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... never would write them down . ' Burke entered Parliament as member for Wendover borough on Jan. 14th , 1766. William Burke , writing to Barry the artist on the following March 23 , says : : - ' Ned's success has exceeded our most san ...
... never would write them down . ' Burke entered Parliament as member for Wendover borough on Jan. 14th , 1766. William Burke , writing to Barry the artist on the following March 23 , says : : - ' Ned's success has exceeded our most san ...
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... never be able to extract or eject . Take this warning , it is of great importance2 . ' The study of the law is what you very justly term it , copious and generous3 ; and in adding your name to its professors , you have done exactly what ...
... never be able to extract or eject . Take this warning , it is of great importance2 . ' The study of the law is what you very justly term it , copious and generous3 ; and in adding your name to its professors , you have done exactly what ...
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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...