Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784) |
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Stran xi
... and in the preparation of a second edition find the quiet and the peace of mind that are often found alone in ' old use and wont . ' With me the preparation of these volumes has , indeed , been the work of many years .
... and in the preparation of a second edition find the quiet and the peace of mind that are often found alone in ' old use and wont . ' With me the preparation of these volumes has , indeed , been the work of many years .
Stran 12
They are the indigenous plants of my mind ; they distinguish it . I may prune their luxuriancy ; but I must not entirely mention Advertisement to the Second Edition . 13 mention with a.
They are the indigenous plants of my mind ; they distinguish it . I may prune their luxuriancy ; but I must not entirely mention Advertisement to the Second Edition . 13 mention with a.
Stran 25
But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition2 .
But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition2 .
Stran 30
... progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations , is the most perfect that can be conceived , and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared .
... progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations , is the most perfect that can be conceived , and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared .
Stran 33
We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
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Stran 472 - 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 24 - 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 202 - 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 226 - 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 276 - 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 425 - 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 88 - 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 159 - 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 298 - 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 173 - 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: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784) Količina 1 od Boswell's Life of Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill Količina 1 od 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 |