Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, 1. kötetClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 oldal |
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vi. oldal
... known to us . It is with the characters of fiction alone that we have the same kind of friendly and close intimacy . Our acquaintance with him is not as with Dryden or Pope or Gibbon , but as with Falstaff and Don Quixote , with Sir ...
... known to us . It is with the characters of fiction alone that we have the same kind of friendly and close intimacy . Our acquaintance with him is not as with Dryden or Pope or Gibbon , but as with Falstaff and Don Quixote , with Sir ...
vii. oldal
... known to us and us alone . Boswell was indeed right when he so often spoke of him as ' a true - born Englishman ' . ' Of all Englishmen he was the most English - in his bad qualities as well as in his good , in his prejudices as well as ...
... known to us and us alone . Boswell was indeed right when he so often spoke of him as ' a true - born Englishman ' . ' Of all Englishmen he was the most English - in his bad qualities as well as in his good , in his prejudices as well as ...
xiii. oldal
... known in this age as ' snobbishness . ' In the days of his poverty his clothes might be little better than a beggar's , and his chairs might have lost a leg ; but no external circumstances ever prompted him to make an apology , or to ...
... known in this age as ' snobbishness . ' In the days of his poverty his clothes might be little better than a beggar's , and his chairs might have lost a leg ; but no external circumstances ever prompted him to make an apology , or to ...
5. oldal
... known to want . Hypocrisy is the ... necessary burthen of villany , affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ; the one completes a villain , the other only finishes a fop . Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation , and ...
... known to want . Hypocrisy is the ... necessary burthen of villany , affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ; the one completes a villain , the other only finishes a fop . Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation , and ...
11. oldal
... known ; but I will venture to affirm , and , till the contrary be plainly shewn , shall always maintain , that no such man is to be found . Tell not me , Sir , of impeccability and perfection ; such talk is for those that are strangers ...
... known ; but I will venture to affirm , and , till the contrary be plainly shewn , shall always maintain , that no such man is to be found . Tell not me , Sir , of impeccability and perfection ; such talk is for those that are strangers ...
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43. 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...
42. oldal - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
156. oldal - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
42. oldal - My Lord, 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.
288. oldal - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
30. oldal - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
176. oldal - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
155. oldal - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
316. oldal - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
119. oldal - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...