Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journal Into North Wales, Količina 1Harper & Brothers, 1799 |
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Stran xviii
... nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who have wandered into widely different paths . In my attempts to trace the quotations of which both Johnson and Boswell were somewhat lavish ...
... nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who have wandered into widely different paths . In my attempts to trace the quotations of which both Johnson and Boswell were somewhat lavish ...
Stran xxiii
... nature of Scotticisms , had been corrected , and greater accu- racy often given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's ...
... nature of Scotticisms , had been corrected , and greater accu- racy often given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's ...
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... nature of the work , in other re- spects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupulous authenticity , has occasioned a degree of trou- ble ...
... nature of the work , in other re- spects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupulous authenticity , has occasioned a degree of trou- ble ...
Stran 13
... nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the ODYSSEY . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes the HERO is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree con- nected with him ; and HE , in the whole ...
... nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the ODYSSEY . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes the HERO is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree con- nected with him ; and HE , in the whole ...
Stran 14
... nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why ' out of the abundance of the heart ' should I not speak ' ? Let me then ...
... nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why ' out of the abundance of the heart ' should I not speak ' ? Let me then ...
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Stran 259 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Stran 363 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me. Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new open'd : O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Stran 303 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Stran 304 - t night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it ? Old M. 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Stran 302 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Stran 478 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press which he produced to me.
Stran 302 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Stran 542 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Stran 447 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Stran 110 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.