Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 páginas |
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... character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study ; nor can I think those characters the greatest which have most learning driven ...
... character that which I willingly give to the other . The erudition of Mr. Johnson proved his genius ; for he had not acquired it by long or profound study ; nor can I think those characters the greatest which have most learning driven ...
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... character of Sober , in " The Idler , " was by himself intended as his own portrait ; and that he . had his own outset into life in his eye , when he wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . 16. Giving away Literary Productions . Dr ...
... character of Sober , in " The Idler , " was by himself intended as his own portrait ; and that he . had his own outset into life in his eye , when he wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . 16. Giving away Literary Productions . Dr ...
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... character as an author , " on the contrary , " says Mr. Johnson , " the greatness of Dryden's reputation is now the only principle of vitality which keeps the Duke of Buckingham's play from putrefaction . ” † * [ See Boswell , vol ...
... character as an author , " on the contrary , " says Mr. Johnson , " the greatness of Dryden's reputation is now the only principle of vitality which keeps the Duke of Buckingham's play from putrefaction . ” † * [ See Boswell , vol ...
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... character by telling how she Could name the ancient heroes round , Explain for what they were renown'd , " & c . I must not , however , lead my readers to suppose that he meant to reserve such talk for men's company as a proof of pre ...
... character by telling how she Could name the ancient heroes round , Explain for what they were renown'd , " & c . I must not , however , lead my readers to suppose that he meant to reserve such talk for men's company as a proof of pre ...
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... character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents , reconcile the jarring interests , & c . : - " Thus , " replies he , “ a mill is a complicated piece of mechanism enough , but the water ...
... character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents , reconcile the jarring interests , & c . : - " Thus , " replies he , “ a mill is a complicated piece of mechanism enough , but the water ...
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acquaintance ANECDOTES answer appeared asked believe Bennet Langton better Bolt Court Boswell Boswell's Brocklesby Burke Burney called character Charles Burney conversation Corsica David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor favour Frank Barber Garrick genius gentleman give hand hear heard honour Hoole hope humour James Boswell Johnson kind knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived look Lord Lucy Porter madam manner Michael Johnson mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion Parr perhaps person Piozzi pleasure Poets Pozz praise prayer racter Rambler recollect religion remark replied Samuel Johnson Sastres Scotland seemed Seward Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Strahan Streatham sure talk tell thing thou thought Thrale tion told took truth virtue Whig wish words write
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Página 468 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 391 - 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...
Página 441 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 376 - 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...
Página 468 - 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...
Página 392 - 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.
Página 387 - 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.
Página 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 26 - 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.
Página 394 - 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...