Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... write them in final form , that none of the freshness and glow might fade . The sheer labor of this process , not to mention the difficulty , can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat . Let him try to report the best ...
... write them in final form , that none of the freshness and glow might fade . The sheer labor of this process , not to mention the difficulty , can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat . Let him try to report the best ...
x. oldal
... writer beyond resistance . ' I observed to him , ' said Boswell , ' that there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could . venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his ...
... writer beyond resistance . ' I observed to him , ' said Boswell , ' that there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could . venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his ...
2. oldal
... writing . Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I ... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ...
... writing . Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I ... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ...
17. oldal
... write his first exercise at College twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other com- position ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . No man had a more ardent ...
... write his first exercise at College twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other com- position ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . No man had a more ardent ...
21. oldal
... writing ' that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words , " Vitam continet una dies " ( one day contains the whole of my life ) ; that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow ; and that he did not know ...
... writing ' that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words , " Vitam continet una dies " ( one day contains the whole of my life ) ; that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow ; and that he did not know ...
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64. oldal - 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.
65. oldal - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
274. oldal - Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
127. oldal - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
67. oldal - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : ' This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords...
230. oldal - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
207. oldal - The Way of the World:' ' If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
213. oldal - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius 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.
208. oldal - It did not require much sagacity to foresee that such a sentiment would not be permitted to pass without due animadversion. JOHNSON. " Do not allow yourself, Sir, to be imposed upon by such gross absurdity. It is sad stuff ; it is brutish. If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, — Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman^) who had destroyed himself.
119. oldal - ... but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.