The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... writing the history of that country , I asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden without going thither . " Yes , Sir , " said he , " one for common use . " We talked of languages . Johnson observed , that Leibnitz ...
... writing the history of that country , I asked Dr. Johnson whether one might write a history of Sweden without going thither . " Yes , Sir , " said he , " one for common use . " We talked of languages . Johnson observed , that Leibnitz ...
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... write Dry- den's Life , expressly says , that " he was characterised under the name of Bayes in The Rehearsal . " - Croker . general satire on the self - importance of dramatic authors 22 1772 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... write Dry- den's Life , expressly says , that " he was characterised under the name of Bayes in The Rehearsal . " - Croker . general satire on the self - importance of dramatic authors 22 1772 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... write his own life . He said , " I know no man whose life would be more interesting . If I were furnished with the materials I should be very glad to write it . " It would seem also as if Boswell had made collections for this purpose ...
... write his own life . He said , " I know no man whose life would be more interesting . If I were furnished with the materials I should be very glad to write it . " It would seem also as if Boswell had made collections for this purpose ...
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... write down his thoughts upon the subject . He said , " There's no occasion for my writing : I'll talk to you . " He was , however , at last prevailed on to dictate to me , while I wrote . " The charge is , that he has used immoderate ...
... write down his thoughts upon the subject . He said , " There's no occasion for my writing : I'll talk to you . " He was , however , at last prevailed on to dictate to me , while I wrote . " The charge is , that he has used immoderate ...
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... write is a distinc- tion , the few who have that distinction may be the less inclined to work ; but when everybody learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too fine a man to work ...
... write is a distinc- tion , the few who have that distinction may be the less inclined to work ; but when everybody learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too fine a man to work ...
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Страница 171 - 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." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Страница 457 - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies ! " His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.
Страница 33 - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
Страница 60 - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
Страница 18 - Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
Страница 513 - Follow me and hear a lecture in philosophy:' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar:' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates.
Страница 423 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Страница 349 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.