Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: With a Selection from His Essay on JohnsonGinn and Company, 1904 - 94 страници |
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... Latin . He wrote of learning the Greek grammar by heart , he tried his hand at Latin verses , and he read what he pleased , with a preference for prose fic- tion and poetry . 1 When eighteen years old ( in October , 1818 ) , Macaulay ...
... Latin . He wrote of learning the Greek grammar by heart , he tried his hand at Latin verses , and he read what he pleased , with a preference for prose fic- tion and poetry . 1 When eighteen years old ( in October , 1818 ) , Macaulay ...
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... Latin literature . That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England he never possessed . But he was early familiar with some classical writers who were quite unknown to the best scholars in the ...
... Latin literature . That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England he never possessed . But he was early familiar with some classical writers who were quite unknown to the best scholars in the ...
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... Latin verse . The style and 5 rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the transla- tion found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . 4. The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course ...
... Latin verse . The style and 5 rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the transla- tion found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . 4. The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course ...
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... Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse : but subscriptions did not come in ; and the volume 15 never appeared ...
... Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse : but subscriptions did not come in ; and the volume 15 never appeared ...
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... , the other by starving pamphleteers and indexmakers . Among Johnson's associates at this time may be mentioned Boyse , who , when his shirts were pledged , scrawled Latin verses sitting up in bed 12 LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... , the other by starving pamphleteers and indexmakers . Among Johnson's associates at this time may be mentioned Boyse , who , when his shirts were pledged , scrawled Latin verses sitting up in bed 12 LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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Страница 84 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since 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...
Страница 72 - When he talked, he clothed his wit and his sense in forcible and natural expressions. As soon as he took his pen in his hand to write for the public, his style became systematically vicious. All his books are written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, in a language in which nobody ever thinks.
Страница 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
Страница 65 - Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases? ' SIR ADAM : ' But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown.
Страница 83 - An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.
Страница 8 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Страница 84 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Страница 85 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence...
Страница 75 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Страница 47 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by. reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.