The Life of Samuel Johnson, Količina 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 |
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Stran 49
... walked the streets him between his house and the tavern where he dined . at all hours , and said he was never robbed , for the rogues knew he had little money , nor had the appearance of having much . " Though the most accessible and ...
... walked the streets him between his house and the tavern where he dined . at all hours , and said he was never robbed , for the rogues knew he had little money , nor had the appearance of having much . " Though the most accessible and ...
Stran 90
... walked to the Pantheon . The first view of it did not strike us so much as Ranelagh , of which he said , the " coup d'œil was the finest thing he had ever seen . The truth is Ranelagh , is of a more beautiful form ; more of it , or ...
... walked to the Pantheon . The first view of it did not strike us so much as Ranelagh , of which he said , the " coup d'œil was the finest thing he had ever seen . The truth is Ranelagh , is of a more beautiful form ; more of it , or ...
Stran 139
... walked up Johnson's Court , I said , " I have a veneration for this court ; " and was glad to find that Beauclerk had the same reverential enthusiasm . We found him alone . We talked of Mr. Andrew Stuart's elegant and plausible Letters ...
... walked up Johnson's Court , I said , " I have a veneration for this court ; " and was glad to find that Beauclerk had the same reverential enthusiasm . We found him alone . We talked of Mr. Andrew Stuart's elegant and plausible Letters ...
Stran 190
... man of known piety , to undeceive them . We walked out , that Dr Johnson might see some of the things which we have to show at Edinburgh . We went to the Parliament house , ' where the Parliament of Scotland sat , 190.
... man of known piety , to undeceive them . We walked out , that Dr Johnson might see some of the things which we have to show at Edinburgh . We went to the Parliament house , ' where the Parliament of Scotland sat , 190.
Stran 209
... walked in the cloisters , there was a solemn echo , while he talked loudly of a proper retirement from the world . Mr. Nairne said , he had an inclination to retire . I called Dr. Johnson's attention to this , that I might hear his ...
... walked in the cloisters , there was a solemn echo , while he talked loudly of a proper retirement from the world . Mr. Nairne said , he had an inclination to retire . I called Dr. Johnson's attention to this , that I might hear his ...
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Stran 424 - 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. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Stran 188 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Stran 75 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Stran 94 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Stran 261 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Stran 50 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Stran 387 - There is no arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Stran 261 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Stran 145 - 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...
Stran 251 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.