Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table TalkT. F. Unwin, 1884 - 156 páginas |
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... , he tells us , partly from regard to health , and partly on moral grounds , as he found it easier and safer to abstain entirely from wine than to be a moder- ate drinker . He took no vow , but he 20 Doctor Johnson .
... , he tells us , partly from regard to health , and partly on moral grounds , as he found it easier and safer to abstain entirely from wine than to be a moder- ate drinker . He took no vow , but he 20 Doctor Johnson .
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His Life, Works & Table Talk James Macaulay. ate drinker . He took no vow , but he set a good example at a time when excessive drinking was thought no moral or social disgrace . There seems to have been no smoking at the club , the use ...
His Life, Works & Table Talk James Macaulay. ate drinker . He took no vow , but he set a good example at a time when excessive drinking was thought no moral or social disgrace . There seems to have been no smoking at the club , the use ...
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... took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , ' " he says , " expecting to find it a dull book , as such books generally are , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an over - match for me ; and this was the first occasion ...
... took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , ' " he says , " expecting to find it a dull book , as such books generally are , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an over - match for me ; and this was the first occasion ...
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... took the Scotticism as meaning that he had left his native country , not that he merely belonged to it by birth ; " that , sir , I find , is what a great many of your countrymen cannot help ! " * ** Not long afterwards Boswell enter ...
... took the Scotticism as meaning that he had left his native country , not that he merely belonged to it by birth ; " that , sir , I find , is what a great many of your countrymen cannot help ! " * ** Not long afterwards Boswell enter ...
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... took no notice of the im- pertinence . * ** Though his usual phrase for con- versation was talk , yet he made a distinction , for he once told Boswell that " he had dined the day before at a friend's house , with a very pretty company ...
... took no notice of the im- pertinence . * ** Though his usual phrase for con- versation was talk , yet he made a distinction , for he once told Boswell that " he had dined the day before at a friend's house , with a very pretty company ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 38 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 37 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 38 - 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...
Página 37 - Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 34 - 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 forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned...
Página 109 - ... degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Página 16 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Página 88 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 48 - It is always an ignorant, lazy, or cowardly acquiescence in a false appearance of excellence, and proceeds not from consciousness of our attainments, but insensibility of our wants, Nothing can be great which is not right. Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Página 27 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retired to die.