Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 159
... shew that I do not found my hopes of approbation upon the ignorance of my readers , and that I fear his censure least , whose knowledge is most extensive . BOSWELL . ' I am , Sir , ' Your most obedient ' humble servant , ' R. JAMES ...
... shew that I do not found my hopes of approbation upon the ignorance of my readers , and that I fear his censure least , whose knowledge is most extensive . BOSWELL . ' I am , Sir , ' Your most obedient ' humble servant , ' R. JAMES ...
Stran 168
... shew how strong , even at that time , was the feeling against strolling players : - ' The strolling tribe , a despicable race , Like wand'ring Arabs shift from place to place . Vagrants by law , to Justice open laid , They tremble , of ...
... shew how strong , even at that time , was the feeling against strolling players : - ' The strolling tribe , a despicable race , Like wand'ring Arabs shift from place to place . Vagrants by law , to Justice open laid , They tremble , of ...
Stran 176
... shew that Johnson was idle . The old man had expected great things from him . ' I have great hopes , ' he had written in 1737 ( see ante , p . 102 ) , ' that he will turn out a fine tragedy writer . " In the nine years in which Johnson ...
... shew that Johnson was idle . The old man had expected great things from him . ' I have great hopes , ' he had written in 1737 ( see ante , p . 102 ) , ' that he will turn out a fine tragedy writer . " In the nine years in which Johnson ...
Stran 179
... shew that he is using it in the sense in which Johnson uses it in his criti- cism of Cowley : - ' These conceits Addison calls mixed wit ; that is , N 2 wit which consists of thoughts true in one sense of the expression and false in the ...
... shew that he is using it in the sense in which Johnson uses it in his criti- cism of Cowley : - ' These conceits Addison calls mixed wit ; that is , N 2 wit which consists of thoughts true in one sense of the expression and false in the ...
Stran 194
... shew . The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously and painted so strongly , that , the moment they are read , they bring conviction to every thinking mind . That of the scholar must have depressed the too ...
... shew . The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously and painted so strongly , that , the moment they are read , they bring conviction to every thinking mind . That of the scholar must have depressed the too ...
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Stran 472 - How must we, when we reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, 'Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind
Stran 24 - After my death I wish no other herald, ' No other speaker of my living actions, ' To keep mine honour from corruption, 'But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' .' SHAKSPEARE, Henry VIII. {Act IV. Sc. 2.] ' See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs.
Stran 202 - The 17th of March, 1752', on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere 2 , that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it 3
Stran 226 - to which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence ' I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth V
Stran 276 - Collins :—' I knew him a few years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.
Stran 425 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who in the crowd of life retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Stran 88 - The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious polity or articulate language
Stran 159 - It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity, that Johnson considered Dr. Birch as a dull writer, and said of him, 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties
Stran 298 - written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Stran 173 - the great biographer has forgotten that he himself has mentioned, that Savage's story had been told several years before in The Plain Dealer; from which he quotes this strong saying of the generous Sir Richard Steele, that 'the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.