The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, 4. kötet1807 |
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86. oldal
... pounds a year . Sir Philip had the appearance of a gentleman of ancient family , well advanced in life . He wore his own white hair in a bag of goodly size , a black velvet coat , with an embroidered waistcoat , and very rich laced ...
... pounds a year . Sir Philip had the appearance of a gentleman of ancient family , well advanced in life . He wore his own white hair in a bag of goodly size , a black velvet coat , with an embroidered waistcoat , and very rich laced ...
89. oldal
... pounds a year , the time in which he might have learnt to talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : " If he had got his four thousand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same ...
... pounds a year , the time in which he might have learnt to talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : " If he had got his four thousand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same ...
91. oldal
... pounds , which was the legacy given to each of his executors . I could not but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office , and particularly of the concerns of the brewery , which it was at last ...
... pounds , which was the legacy given to each of his executors . I could not but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office , and particularly of the concerns of the brewery , which it was at last ...
107. oldal
... pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scotland ? " JOHN- SON . " Why , Sir , the money may be spent in Eng land ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds ...
... pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scotland ? " JOHN- SON . " Why , Sir , the money may be spent in Eng land ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds ...
127. oldal
... pounds of subscription- money for his " Universal Passion , " but had lost it in the South - Sea . Dr. Johnson thought this must be a mistake ; for he had never seen a subscription- book . Upon the road we talked of the uncertainty of ...
... pounds of subscription- money for his " Universal Passion , " but had lost it in the South - Sea . Dr. Johnson thought this must be a mistake ; for he had never seen a subscription- book . Upon the road we talked of the uncertainty of ...
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436. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
326. oldal - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
111. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
149. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
111. oldal - ... similitude: sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, .in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
45. oldal - ... felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
111. oldal - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth things by, which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
31. oldal - Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
202. oldal - It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
468. oldal - ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.