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 xxiii
... writing of Macaulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with ...
... writing of Macaulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with ...
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... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : - ' I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credible what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I con- template in a day ; and all ...
... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : - ' I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credible what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I con- template in a day ; and all ...
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... writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to publish it . [ July 1 , 17933 ] clear it of them ; for then I should be no longer " as I am ; " and perhaps there might be ...
... writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to publish it . [ July 1 , 17933 ] clear it of them ; for then I should be no longer " as I am ; " and perhaps there might be ...
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... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task . Had Dr. Johnson ...
... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task . Had Dr. Johnson ...
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... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which Mrs. Piozzi records the following conversation with Johnson , which , she says , took place on July 18 ...
... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which Mrs. Piozzi records the following conversation with Johnson , which , she says , took place on July 18 ...
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Stran 262 - ... 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 195 - 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 351 - 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 496 - 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 443 - ... 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 395 - 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 423 - 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 314 - ... 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 410 - 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.