Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 2;Količine 1765–1776Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 323 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Stran 344 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Stran 125 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Stran 366 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Stran 121 - 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 5 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 136 - I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand.
Stran 86 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Stran 319 - I wondered to hear him say of ' Gulliver's Travels,' " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Stran 327 - He attacked Gray, calling him "a dull fellow." BOSWELL. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry.