Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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xviii. oldal
... pleasure that I discovered that the story told of Johnson's listening to Dr. Sacheverel's sermon is not in any way improbable 10 , and that Johnson's ' censure ' of Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence ...
... pleasure that I discovered that the story told of Johnson's listening to Dr. Sacheverel's sermon is not in any way improbable 10 , and that Johnson's ' censure ' of Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence ...
xxi. oldal
... pleasure that in revising my proof - sheets I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying ; ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing ...
... pleasure that in revising my proof - sheets I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying ; ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing ...
xxiii. oldal
... pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention ...
... pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention ...
xxiv. oldal
... pleasures of novelty have ceased let him attempt exactness and read the com- mentators ' ' So too let him who reads the ... pleasure I cannot doubt . How much he valued any tribute of respect from Oxford is shown by the absurd importance ...
... pleasures of novelty have ceased let him attempt exactness and read the com- mentators ' ' So too let him who reads the ... pleasure I cannot doubt . How much he valued any tribute of respect from Oxford is shown by the absurd importance ...
1. oldal
... pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
... pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
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472. oldal - 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
24. oldal - 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.
202. oldal - 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
226. oldal - 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
276. oldal - 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.
425. oldal - 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.
88. oldal - 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
159. oldal - 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
298. oldal - 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.
173. oldal - 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.