Boswell's Life of Johnson, 3. kötetA. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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5. oldal
... desire to go upon this expedition , sir ? ' JOHNSON : Why , yes , but I soon laid it aside . there is very little of intellectual in the course . sides , I see but at a small distance . So it was not worth my while to go to see birds ...
... desire to go upon this expedition , sir ? ' JOHNSON : Why , yes , but I soon laid it aside . there is very little of intellectual in the course . sides , I see but at a small distance . So it was not worth my while to go to see birds ...
17. oldal
... desires his friends to tell him when he is wrong ; nor does he choose to be told . Sir , when people watch me narrowly , and I do not watch my- self , they will find me out to be of a particular county . In the same manner Dunning may ...
... desires his friends to tell him when he is wrong ; nor does he choose to be told . Sir , when people watch me narrowly , and I do not watch my- self , they will find me out to be of a particular county . In the same manner Dunning may ...
43. oldal
... desires ; by tyranny , which law has defeated , and by malice , which virtue has surmounted . ' " This , sir ( said he ) , you are to turn in your mind , and make the best use of it you can in your speech . ' Of our friend Goldsmith he ...
... desires ; by tyranny , which law has defeated , and by malice , which virtue has surmounted . ' " This , sir ( said he ) , you are to turn in your mind , and make the best use of it you can in your speech . ' Of our friend Goldsmith he ...
51. oldal
... desire the bookseller to take it away . ' · I mentioned a friend of mine who had resided long in Spain , and was unwilling to return to Britain . JOHNSON : Sir , he is attached to some woman . ' BoswELL : ' I rather believe , sir , it ...
... desire the bookseller to take it away . ' · I mentioned a friend of mine who had resided long in Spain , and was unwilling to return to Britain . JOHNSON : Sir , he is attached to some woman . ' BoswELL : ' I rather believe , sir , it ...
99. oldal
... desires are not the measure of equity . It were to be desired that power should be only in the hands of the merciful , and riches in the possession of the generous ; but the law must leave both riches and power where it finds them : and ...
... desires are not the measure of equity . It were to be desired that power should be only in the hands of the merciful , and riches in the possession of the generous ; but the law must leave both riches and power where it finds them : and ...
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263. 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.
184. oldal - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
263. oldal - as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.
44. oldal - Of our friend Goldsmith he said, " Sir, he is so much afraid of being unnoticed, that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in the company." BOSWELL. "Yes, he stands forward." JOHNSON. "True, Sir; but if a man is to stand forward, he should wish to do it, not in an awkward posture, not in rags, not so as that he shall only be exposed to ridicule." BOSWELL. " For my part, I like very well to hear honest Goldsmith talk away carelessly.
195. oldal - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
263. oldal - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
237. oldal - For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
87. oldal - Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History it is not. Besides, Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his History. Now Robertson might have put twice as much into his book. Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool : the wool takes up more room, than the gold.
109. oldal - ... paid to Johnson. One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. ' Sir,' said he, ' you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.
45. oldal - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.