Samuel JohnsonMacmillan, 1925 - 200 páginas |
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Página 35
... meaning in the years to come . This mournful truth . he says , — Is everywhere confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd . Ten years later ( in January 1749 ) appeared the Vanity of Human Wishes , an imitation of the Tenth ...
... meaning in the years to come . This mournful truth . he says , — Is everywhere confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd . Ten years later ( in January 1749 ) appeared the Vanity of Human Wishes , an imitation of the Tenth ...
Página 38
... Johnson was not in this re- spect ahead of his contemporaries . To collect all the words in the language , to define their meanings as accurately as might be , to give the obvious or whimsical guesses 38 [ CHAP SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... Johnson was not in this re- spect ahead of his contemporaries . To collect all the words in the language , to define their meanings as accurately as might be , to give the obvious or whimsical guesses 38 [ CHAP SAMUEL JOHNSON .
Página 78
... at random , and he has , in fact , explained very well the true meaning of his remarks . Goldsmith was an excitable Irishman of genins who tumbled out whatever came uppermost , and revealed the 78 [ CHAP . SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... at random , and he has , in fact , explained very well the true meaning of his remarks . Goldsmith was an excitable Irishman of genins who tumbled out whatever came uppermost , and revealed the 78 [ CHAP . SAMUEL JOHNSON .
Página 91
... meaning of a repartee . It is not till we compare his reports with those of less skilful hearers , that we can appreciate the skill with which the essence of a conversation is extracted , and the whole scene indicated by a few telling ...
... meaning of a repartee . It is not till we compare his reports with those of less skilful hearers , that we can appreciate the skill with which the essence of a conversation is extracted , and the whole scene indicated by a few telling ...
Página 93
... meaning entreaties of Hannah More to soften his accounts of Johnson's asperities . He saw instinctively that a man who is worth anything loses far more than he gains by such posthumous flattery . The whole picture is toned down , and ...
... meaning entreaties of Hannah More to soften his accounts of Johnson's asperities . He saw instinctively that a man who is worth anything loses far more than he gains by such posthumous flattery . The whole picture is toned down , and ...
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acquaintance Adam Smith admirable affection appeared asked Beauclerk became biographer Boswell's Burke Burney character Club companion conversation Corsica criticism David Garrick death despised Dictionary dinner Dunciad expressed favour feeling friendship Garrick give Goldsmith Grub Street guineas happy Hawkins heart honour Horace Walpole human Hume illustrate kind labours lady Langton less letter Levett Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manners meet melancholy mind misery Miss Williams nature never night observed occasion once Oxford passage pension perhaps phrase Piozzi poem poet poetry political poor Boswell Pope praise prejudices probably Rambler Rasselas received regard remark replied Johnson Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON Satire of Juvenal Savage says Scotch seems sense sentiment Soame Jenyns Streatham style suffer talk tell tender thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies took truth utter vanity Whig Whiggism whilst Wilkes wish write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 44 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 194 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página 101 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 45 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Página 45 - I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Página 13 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Página 195 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour...
Página 122 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 188 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral — -easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 149 - 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.