Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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Stran 18
... a sword that will not draw . It is an admirable sword , to be sure : but while your enemy is cutting your throat you are unable to use it . Besides , sir , what entitles Sheridan to fix the 18 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1772.
... a sword that will not draw . It is an admirable sword , to be sure : but while your enemy is cutting your throat you are unable to use it . Besides , sir , what entitles Sheridan to fix the 18 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1772.
Stran 48
... admired . We have seen fine fiddlers whom we liked as little as toads ' ( laughing ) . Talking on the subject of taste in the arts he said , that difference of taste was in truth difference of skill . BOSWELL : ' But , sir , is there ...
... admired . We have seen fine fiddlers whom we liked as little as toads ' ( laughing ) . Talking on the subject of taste in the arts he said , that difference of taste was in truth difference of skill . BOSWELL : ' But , sir , is there ...
Stran 60
... admiration . This I intend to do as soon as I am left a little at leisure . Meantime , if you have occasion to write to him , I beg you will offer him my most respectful compliments , and assure him of the sincerity of my attachment and ...
... admiration . This I intend to do as soon as I am left a little at leisure . Meantime , if you have occasion to write to him , I beg you will offer him my most respectful compliments , and assure him of the sincerity of my attachment and ...
Stran 81
... admired , and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it . JOHNSON : ' I have looked into it . ' ' What ( said Elphinston ) , have you not read it through ? ' Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of ...
... admired , and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it . JOHNSON : ' I have looked into it . ' ' What ( said Elphinston ) , have you not read it through ? ' Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of ...
Stran 93
... admiration of Milton as a poet , notwithstanding his just abhorrence of that sour Republican's political principles . His candour and discrimination are equally conspicuous . Let us hear no more of his ' injustice to Milton . ' 3 [ In a ...
... admiration of Milton as a poet , notwithstanding his just abhorrence of that sour Republican's political principles . His candour and discrimination are equally conspicuous . Let us hear no more of his ' injustice to Milton . ' 3 [ In a ...
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Stran 261 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Stran 184 - 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 261 - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.
Stran 44 - Of our friend Goldsmith he said, " Sir, he is so much afraid of being unnoticed, that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in the company." BOSWELL. "Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule." BOSWELL. " For my part, I like very well to hear honest Goldsmith talk away carelessly.
Stran 195 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Stran 261 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Stran 237 - For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Stran 87 - Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his History. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool : the wool takes up more room, than the gold.
Stran 109 - ... paid to Johnson. One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. ' Sir,' said he, ' you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.
Stran 45 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.