The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, 4. kötetNational ilustrated library, 1859 |
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14. oldal
... allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON : Ah , Sir , don't give way ...
... allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON : Ah , Sir , don't give way ...
25. oldal
... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensible of the wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Langton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon topics ...
... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensible of the wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Langton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon topics ...
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... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , ' that " amendments are seldom made without some ...
... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , ' that " amendments are seldom made without some ...
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... allows that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable encomiums . " 1 1 See " An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
... allows that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable encomiums . " 1 1 See " An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
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... allow that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " But I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acrimonious and surly Republican " - " a man who in his domestic relations was so severe and ...
... allow that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " But I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acrimonious and surly Republican " - " a man who in his domestic relations was so severe and ...
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acquaintance admirable afterwards Anecdotes answered appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention believe Bennet Langton Bishop Brocklesby Burke Burney character Club compliments consider conversation curiosity dear Sir death Derbyshire dined dropsy edition eminent English entertained expression favour fcap Francis Barber gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give happy honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL Johnson kind lady Langton learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord lordship LUCY PORTER Madam manner mentioned merit mind Miss never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College perhaps person pleased pleasure poet Pope pounds praise prayers published recollect remarkable respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told translation Uttoxeter verses Whig Wilkes William wish wonder write written wrote young
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272. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
72. oldal - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words. That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
216. oldal - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
79. oldal - Tis that which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
217. oldal - He seemed to take a pleasure in speaking in his own style ; for when he had carelessly missed it, he would repeat the thought translated into it. Talking of the comedy of "The Rehearsal," he said, "It has not wit enough to keep it sweet.
88. oldal - They are more powerful, Sir, than we, answered Imlac, because they are wiser ; knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given, but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
27. oldal - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
290. oldal - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
204. oldal - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?' JOHNSON. 'A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk ; but I do not despair.' MRS. ADAMS. 'You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
239. oldal - Sept. 2. Mr. Windham has been here to see me; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and stayed about a day and a half; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.