Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor JohnsonA. Boot, 1884 - 319 oldal |
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... hear him construe . About the same time of life Meeke was left behind at Oxford to feed on a fellow- ship , and I went to London to get my living . Now , sir , see the difference of our literary characters ! " As they were leaving the ...
... hear him construe . About the same time of life Meeke was left behind at Oxford to feed on a fellow- ship , and I went to London to get my living . Now , sir , see the difference of our literary characters ! " As they were leaving the ...
57. oldal
... hear so much , was in an uncommercial country , when men being idle were glad to be entertained at rich men's tables : but in a commercial country , a busy country , time becomes precious , and therefore hospitality is not so much ...
... hear so much , was in an uncommercial country , when men being idle were glad to be entertained at rich men's tables : but in a commercial country , a busy country , time becomes precious , and therefore hospitality is not so much ...
65. oldal
... hear what they can tell of their religion . " He maintained that a boy at school was the happiest of human beings . Boswell supported a different opinion - that a man is happier ; and enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are ...
... hear what they can tell of their religion . " He maintained that a boy at school was the happiest of human beings . Boswell supported a different opinion - that a man is happier ; and enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are ...
70. oldal
... hear it said , very gravely , ' Why was not the half - guinea , thus spent in luxury , given to the poor ? To how many might it have afforded a good meal ! ' Alas ! has it not gone to the industrious poor , whom it is better to support ...
... hear it said , very gravely , ' Why was not the half - guinea , thus spent in luxury , given to the poor ? To how many might it have afforded a good meal ! ' Alas ! has it not gone to the industrious poor , whom it is better to support ...
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... hear a lecture in philosophy : ' and Charles , laying his hand on his sword , to say , ' Follow me , and dethrone the Czar : ' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates . Sir , the impression is universal ; yet it is strange . As to the ...
... hear a lecture in philosophy : ' and Charles , laying his hand on his sword , to say , ' Follow me , and dethrone the Czar : ' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates . Sir , the impression is universal ; yet it is strange . As to the ...
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260. oldal - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
194. oldal - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
287. oldal - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
30. oldal - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray that their understanding is not called in question.
83. oldal - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
286. oldal - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
287. oldal - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
84. oldal - They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
16. oldal - All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle...
287. oldal - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...