The Life of Samuel JohnsonAmerican book Company, 1895 - 70 oldal |
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Account of Corsica acquainted Addison Æschylus appeared Augustan Beau Nash became bookseller Boswell Boswell's brilliant Burke called celebrated Charles Chesterfield Cloth criticism David Garrick death diction Dictionary died dramatist Dunciad edition eighteenth century eloquence eminent England English language English Literature essay essayist fame famous Garrick genius George George II Greek guineas Gulliver's Travels Hebrides Henry Thrale Hervey honor Human Wishes hundred Idler Jacobite John Johnson's character lady Latin learning letters lexicographer Lichfield lived London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manners never opinion orator Oxford Parliament party patron patronage poems poet political Pope Pope's pounds published Queen Rambler Rasselas received reign Roman SAMUEL JOHNSON satire Savage scholar Scotch Scotland Sejanus Shakespeare SKINNER sometimes spirit statesman strange Streatham Street style taste thought Thrale tion Tory Vanity of Human volume Walpole Whig Wilkes writer written wrote
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16. oldal - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending.
17. oldal - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
16. oldal - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
17. 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...
34. oldal - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
65. oldal - They are the judgments of a mind trammelled by prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated from the alloy; and, at the very worst, they mean something, a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions.
30. oldal - He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.
54. oldal - Club, which gradually became a formidable power in the commonwealth of letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-maker and the pastrycook.
45. oldal - Dictionary was hailed with an enthusiasm such as no similar work has ever excited. It was indeed the first dictionary which could be read with pleasure. The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from poets, divines, and philosophers are so skilfully selected, that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages.
62. oldal - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them...