Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
Iz vsebine knjige
Zadetki 1–5 od 30
Stran 15
... . ' JOHNSON : ' Why no , sir ; Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has written upon other things . Selden too . ' SIR A .: ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 15.
... . ' JOHNSON : ' Why no , sir ; Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has written upon other things . Selden too . ' SIR A .: ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 15.
Stran 48
... judge who has a good taste in style and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned don't differ as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another loves a ...
... judge who has a good taste in style and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned don't differ as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another loves a ...
Stran 52
... where the interference proved had been inconsiderable . In a case 1 which came before that Court the preceding 1 Wilson against Smith and Armour . winter , I had laboured to persuade the Judge to 52 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1772.
... where the interference proved had been inconsiderable . In a case 1 which came before that Court the preceding 1 Wilson against Smith and Armour . winter , I had laboured to persuade the Judge to 52 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1772.
Stran 53
... judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his intention before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can know but after he has committed the ...
... judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his intention before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can know but after he has committed the ...
Stran 56
... judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown less fierce ; and , I am afraid , it cannot be affirmed that it is grown less fraudulent . ' Since this law has been represented as rigorously and unreasonably ...
... judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown less fierce ; and , I am afraid , it cannot be affirmed that it is grown less fraudulent . ' Since this law has been represented as rigorously and unreasonably ...
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
acquaintance affectionate afraid appeared Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe bookseller called character church compliments consider conversation Court Court of Session DEAR SIR dined Doctor Doctor of Medicine edition eminent England English Erse father favour French Garrick gentleman give glad Goldsmith happy Hebrides heir-male honour hope humble servant Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON Edinburgh judge King lady land Langton learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo madam male manner means ment mentioned mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford Paris perhaps pleased poem Raasay reason remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seems Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell things Thomas Boswell thought Thrale tion told truth wish wonderful write written wrote
Priljubljeni odlomki
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.