The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Količina 1Harper & Bros., 1846 |
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Stran iii
... original publication - however naturally private confidence was alarmed , or individual vanity offended , the voices of criticism and complaint were soon drowned in the general applause . And no wonder the work combines within itself ...
... original publication - however naturally private confidence was alarmed , or individual vanity offended , the voices of criticism and complaint were soon drowned in the general applause . And no wonder the work combines within itself ...
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... original clearness and freshness , have been the main ob . jects of the editor . He is but too well aware how unequal he is to the task , and how imperfectly he has accomplished it . But as the time was rapidly pass- ing away in which ...
... original clearness and freshness , have been the main ob . jects of the editor . He is but too well aware how unequal he is to the task , and how imperfectly he has accomplished it . But as the time was rapidly pass- ing away in which ...
Stran vi
... original plan , he would - instead of adding so many letters 2 - have been inclined to have omitted all , except those which might be remarkable for some peculiar merit , or which might tend to complete the history of Johnson's life ...
... original plan , he would - instead of adding so many letters 2 - have been inclined to have omitted all , except those which might be remarkable for some peculiar merit , or which might tend to complete the history of Johnson's life ...
Stran vii
... original manuscript of Mr. Boswell's Journal , which would no doubt have enabled him to fill up all the blanks and clear away much of the obscurity that exist in the printed LIFE . It was to be hoped that the archives of Auchinleck ...
... original manuscript of Mr. Boswell's Journal , which would no doubt have enabled him to fill up all the blanks and clear away much of the obscurity that exist in the printed LIFE . It was to be hoped that the archives of Auchinleck ...
Stran viii
... original papers , now ( most appropriately ) deposited in the library of that college , and some , not unimportant , light has been thrown on that publication by the personal inspection of the papers which he permitted the editor to ...
... original papers , now ( most appropriately ) deposited in the library of that college , and some , not unimportant , light has been thrown on that publication by the personal inspection of the papers which he permitted the editor to ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Količina 1 James Boswell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1856 |
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Stran 434 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
Stran 109 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since 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.
Stran 109 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Stran 109 - 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 123 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Stran 109 - 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...
Stran 174 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression 'come from Scotland...
Stran 296 - The misfortune of Goldsmith in conversation is this : he goes on without knowing how he is to get off. His genius is great, but his knowledge is small. As they say of a generous man, it is a pity he is not rich, we may say of Goldsmith, it is a pity he is not knowing. He would not keep his knowledge to himself.
Stran 189 - I believe, sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Stran 310 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...