Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 oldal |
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43. oldal
... feel for those who lamented the loss of a child , a parent , or a friend . " These are the distresses of sentiment , " he would reply , " which a man who is really to be pitied has no leisure to feel . The sight of people who want food ...
... feel for those who lamented the loss of a child , a parent , or a friend . " These are the distresses of sentiment , " he would reply , " which a man who is really to be pitied has no leisure to feel . The sight of people who want food ...
50. oldal
... feel the slightest disposition to turn them if their backs were outermost , unless it might be for the sake of telling Sir Joshua that he had turned them . Such speeches may appear offensive to many , but those who knew he was too blind ...
... feel the slightest disposition to turn them if their backs were outermost , unless it might be for the sake of telling Sir Joshua that he had turned them . Such speeches may appear offensive to many , but those who knew he was too blind ...
52. oldal
... feel delighted by their release . " 57. Useless Singularity . - Cards . - Dress . - Dancing . Mr. Johnson was indeed unjustly supposed to be a lover of singularity . Few people had a more settled reverence for the world than he , or was ...
... feel delighted by their release . " 57. Useless Singularity . - Cards . - Dress . - Dancing . Mr. Johnson was indeed unjustly supposed to be a lover of singularity . Few people had a more settled reverence for the world than he , or was ...
59. oldal
... feel her elastic force and return to the beloved object with renewed delight ; " Why , what a pernicious maxim is this now , " cries Johnson : " all quar- rels ought to be avoided studiously , particularly conjugal ones , as no one can ...
... feel her elastic force and return to the beloved object with renewed delight ; " Why , what a pernicious maxim is this now , " cries Johnson : " all quar- rels ought to be avoided studiously , particularly conjugal ones , as no one can ...
60. oldal
... , " says Dr. Johnson , " give great offence by a contemptuous spirit of noncompliance on petty occa- sions . The man who calls his wife to walk with him in the shade , and she feels a strange desire just 60 JOHNSONIANA .
... , " says Dr. Johnson , " give great offence by a contemptuous spirit of noncompliance on petty occa- sions . The man who calls his wife to walk with him in the shade , and she feels a strange desire just 60 JOHNSONIANA .
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468. oldal - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
391. oldal - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
441. oldal - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
376. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
468. oldal - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
392. 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.
387. oldal - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
32. oldal - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
26. oldal - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
394. oldal - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable...