The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 |
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7. oldal
... never could persevere . He advised me to do it . " The great thing to be recorded , " said he , " is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or ...
... never could persevere . He advised me to do it . " The great thing to be recorded , " said he , " is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or ...
13. oldal
... never rebel was to arts a friend . " " " " General Paoli observed , that successful rebels might . MARTINELLI : " Happy rebellions . " GOLDSMITH : " We have no such phrase . ' GENERAL PAOLI : " But have you not the thing ? ' GOLDSMITH ...
... never rebel was to arts a friend . " " " " General Paoli observed , that successful rebels might . MARTINELLI : " Happy rebellions . " GOLDSMITH : " We have no such phrase . ' GENERAL PAOLI : " But have you not the thing ? ' GOLDSMITH ...
18. oldal
... never heard of them . This is owing to their not being sold . People seldom read a book which is given to them ; a few are given . The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price . No man will send to buy a thing that costs even ...
... never heard of them . This is owing to their not being sold . People seldom read a book which is given to them ; a few are given . The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price . No man will send to buy a thing that costs even ...
24. oldal
... never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history - piece : he imagines an heroic countenance . You must look upon Robertson's work as romance , and try it by that standard . History it is not ...
... never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history - piece : he imagines an heroic countenance . You must look upon Robertson's work as romance , and try it by that standard . History it is not ...
30. oldal
... never had , they have never lost . Caius may usurp the right of Titius , but neither Caius nor Titius injure the people ; and no man's conscience , however tender or however active , can prompt him to restore what may be proved to have ...
... never had , they have never lost . Caius may usurp the right of Titius , but neither Caius nor Titius injure the people ; and no man's conscience , however tender or however active , can prompt him to restore what may be proved to have ...
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366. oldal - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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.
96. oldal - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
370. oldal - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
112. oldal - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
352. oldal - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
128. oldal - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
27. oldal - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
204. oldal - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
24. oldal - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
300. oldal - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.