Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 1. kötetBigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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... passed on to the other great writers of his and the succeeding age , finding in their exquisitely clear style , their admirable common sense and their freedom from all the tricks of affectation , a delightful contrast to so many of the ...
... passed on to the other great writers of his and the succeeding age , finding in their exquisitely clear style , their admirable common sense and their freedom from all the tricks of affectation , a delightful contrast to so many of the ...
xiv. oldal
... passed on Johnson and Boswell by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The follow- ing year I edited Boswell's Journal of a ...
... passed on Johnson and Boswell by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The follow- ing year I edited Boswell's Journal of a ...
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... passing through the press , 1 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ed . 1807 , vol . i . ' Post , iii . 260 . › Post , i . 7 . p . xi . I. - B fresh xvi Preface . fresh reading has given fresh information ,
... passing through the press , 1 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ed . 1807 , vol . i . ' Post , iii . 260 . › Post , i . 7 . p . xi . I. - B fresh xvi Preface . fresh reading has given fresh information ,
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... passing through the press he obtained many additional anecdotes and letters . These he somewhat awkwardly in- serted in an Introduction and an Appendix . He was en- gaged on his third edition when he died . He had pointed out where some ...
... passing through the press he obtained many additional anecdotes and letters . These he somewhat awkwardly in- serted in an Introduction and an Appendix . He was en- gaged on his third edition when he died . He had pointed out where some ...
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... passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled his ...
... passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled his ...
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305. oldal - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
261. oldal - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
481. oldal - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
304. oldal - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
304. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
303. oldal - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
451. oldal - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
524. oldal - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
235. oldal - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
460. oldal - I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.