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 1Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran xv
... never read . Books which were in the hands of almost every reader of the Life when it first appeared are now read only by the curious . Allusions and quotations which once fell upon a familiar and a friendly ear now fall dead . Men ...
... never read . Books which were in the hands of almost every reader of the Life when it first appeared are now read only by the curious . Allusions and quotations which once fell upon a familiar and a friendly ear now fall dead . Men ...
Stran xxvi
... never have to mourn over the loss of a single leaf . To the Rev. W. D. Macray , M.A. , of the manuscript department of the Bodleian , to Mr. Falconer Madan , M.A. , Sub - Librarian of the same Library , and to Mr. George Parker , one of ...
... never have to mourn over the loss of a single leaf . To the Rev. W. D. Macray , M.A. , of the manuscript department of the Bodleian , to Mr. Falconer Madan , M.A. , Sub - Librarian of the same Library , and to Mr. George Parker , one of ...
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... never speak till you are spoken to . " Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 20 , 1773. Boswell writing of this Tour said : - ' I also may be al- lowed to claim some merit in leading the conversation ; I do not mean leading , as in an orchestra ...
... never speak till you are spoken to . " Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 20 , 1773. Boswell writing of this Tour said : - ' I also may be al- lowed to claim some merit in leading the conversation ; I do not mean leading , as in an orchestra ...
Stran 27
... never saw in his company , I think but once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent , religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his ...
... never saw in his company , I think but once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent , religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his ...
Stran 28
... never lived in any real intimacy with Dr. Johnson , who never opened his heart to him , or had in fact any accurate knowledge of his character . ' Prior's Malone , pp . 425-7 . See post , Feb. 1764 , note . 2 Mrs. Piozzi . See post ...
... never lived in any real intimacy with Dr. Johnson , who never opened his heart to him , or had in fact any accurate knowledge of his character . ' Prior's Malone , pp . 425-7 . See post , Feb. 1764 , note . 2 Mrs. Piozzi . See post ...
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Stran 260 - ... 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 193 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Stran 349 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Stran 494 - Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings,...
Stran 441 - ... Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. I love the young dogs of this age, they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life than we had, but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad...
Stran xxiii - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Stran 393 - Sir, (said I,) I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you." He seemed pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him, and answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me.
Stran 421 - Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man : his learning was not profound ; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high.
Stran 312 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Stran 408 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck.