Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1 |
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Stran xv
When the variety and the number of my notes are considered , when it is known that a great many of the authors I do not myself possess , but that they could only be examined in the Bodleian or the British Museum , it will be seen that ...
When the variety and the number of my notes are considered , when it is known that a great many of the authors I do not myself possess , but that they could only be examined in the Bodleian or the British Museum , it will be seen that ...
Stran 33
Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am ...
Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am ...
Stran 38
... and the more scrupulous or witty enquirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously characteristick , that I shall not withhold it .
... and the more scrupulous or witty enquirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously characteristick , that I shall not withhold it .
Stran 44
He would ask a boy a question ; and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick ...
He would ask a boy a question ; and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick ...
Stran 69
rest ; and not thinking to enquire Most likely it was the sickness in the whether there were any English books long vacation of 1729 mentioned ante , written on the subject , followed his usual amusements and considered his * In his ...
rest ; and not thinking to enquire Most likely it was the sickness in the whether there were any English books long vacation of 1729 mentioned ante , written on the subject , followed his usual amusements and considered his * In his ...
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Stran 470 - How must we, when we reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, 'Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind
Stran 22 - After my death I wish no other herald, ' No other speaker of my living actions, ' To keep mine honour from corruption, 'But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' .' SHAKSPEARE, Henry VIII. {Act IV. Sc. 2.] ' See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs.
Stran 200 - The 17th of March, 1752', on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere 2 , that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it 3
Stran 224 - to which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence ' I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth V
Stran 274 - Collins :—' I knew him a few years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.
Stran 423 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who in the crowd of life retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Stran 86 - The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious polity or articulate language
Stran 157 - It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity, that Johnson considered Dr. Birch as a dull writer, and said of him, 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties
Stran 296 - written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Stran 171 - the great biographer has forgotten that he himself has mentioned, that Savage's story had been told several years before in The Plain Dealer; from which he quotes this strong saying of the generous Sir Richard Steele, that 'the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.
Bibliografski podatki
| Naslov | Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Avtor | James Boswell |
| Urednik | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Založnik | Clarendon Press, 1887 |
| Vir izvirnika | Harvardska univerza |
| Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis | 22 feb 2006 |
| Izvozi navedbo | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |