Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 oldal |
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32. oldal
... true , " said he ; " but that is no rea- son for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakspeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
... true , " said he ; " but that is no rea- son for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakspeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
38. oldal
... true gratitude of a wit , ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August , 1772 , not neglecting the ...
... true gratitude of a wit , ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August , 1772 , not neglecting the ...
44. oldal
... true , only because it is so . Few things which pass well enough with others would do with him : he had been a great reader of Mandeville , and was ever on the watch to spy out those stains of ori- ginal corruption , so easily ...
... true , only because it is so . Few things which pass well enough with others would do with him : he had been a great reader of Mandeville , and was ever on the watch to spy out those stains of ori- ginal corruption , so easily ...
45. oldal
... true . " Heroic virtues , " said he , " are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized , I think ; like the aloe- tree , which shoots and flowers once in a hundred years . " 44. Life ...
... true . " Heroic virtues , " said he , " are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized , I think ; like the aloe- tree , which shoots and flowers once in a hundred years . " 44. Life ...
49. oldal
... true knowledge of human life , and so adorned with beauty of sentiment , that no one ever re- collected the offence , except to rejoice in its consequences . He repented just as certainly , however , if he had been led to praise any ...
... true knowledge of human life , and so adorned with beauty of sentiment , that no one ever re- collected the offence , except to rejoice in its consequences . He repented just as certainly , however , if he had been led to praise any ...
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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...