Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1A. Constable and Company, 1903 |
Iz vsebine knjige
Zadetki 1–3 od 37
Stran 8
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more important than public occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more important than public occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of ...
Stran 58
... nature from the life , and to have consulted his senses , not his ima- gination . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without ...
... nature from the life , and to have consulted his senses , not his ima- gination . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without ...
Stran 253
... Natural History of Aleppo ; Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in Proof of a Deity ; Borlase's History of the Isles of Sicily ... Nature and Origin of Evil . All these , from internal evidence , were written by Johnson : some of them I know he ...
... Natural History of Aleppo ; Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in Proof of a Deity ; Borlase's History of the Isles of Sicily ... Nature and Origin of Evil . All these , from internal evidence , were written by Johnson : some of them I know he ...
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
acquainted Adams admiration afterwards appears Beauclerk believe bookseller Boswell Boswell's Cave character College conversation copy David Garrick dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death delighted Dictionary Dodsley edition Edward Cave elegant eminent English essays excellent favour Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine happy Hector honour hope house of Stuart humble servant imagination imitation informed Joseph Warton kind labour Lady Macclesfield Langton language late Latin learned Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Chesterfield Lordship Lucy Porter Macclesfield manner master mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford paper passage Pembroke College person pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise Preface published Rambler remarkable Reverend Richard Savage Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson satire Savage Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds style suppose THOMAS WARTON thought tion told translation truth verses wife wish write written wrote