Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: With a Selection from His Essay on JohnsonGinn and Company, 1904 - 94 страници |
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... Equally fitting is it that in Poet's Corner , Westminster Abbey , the resting place of Johnson , Garrick , Goldsmith , and Addison , there should lie a stone with this inscription : THOMAS BABINGTON , LORD MACAULAY , BORN AT ROTHLEY ...
... Equally fitting is it that in Poet's Corner , Westminster Abbey , the resting place of Johnson , Garrick , Goldsmith , and Addison , there should lie a stone with this inscription : THOMAS BABINGTON , LORD MACAULAY , BORN AT ROTHLEY ...
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... equally profitable , at this point , to test the coher- ence of half a dozen paragraphs . Does each sentence lead up naturally to the next ? Can the order of sentences be changed to advantage ? When the sentences in a paragraph hold ...
... equally profitable , at this point , to test the coher- ence of half a dozen paragraphs . Does each sentence lead up naturally to the next ? Can the order of sentences be changed to advantage ? When the sentences in a paragraph hold ...
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... equally intolerable to his haughty spirit . He was driven from the quadrangle of Christ Church by the sneering looks which the members of that aristocratical society cast at the holes in his shoes . Some charitable person 25 placed a ...
... equally intolerable to his haughty spirit . He was driven from the quadrangle of Christ Church by the sneering looks which the members of that aristocratical society cast at the holes in his shoes . Some charitable person 25 placed a ...
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... equally callous . He was not ashamed to exhibit himself to the whole world as a common spy , a com- mon tattler , a humble companion without the excuse of pov- erty , and to tell a hundred stories of his own pertness and 15 folly , and ...
... equally callous . He was not ashamed to exhibit himself to the whole world as a common spy , a com- mon tattler , a humble companion without the excuse of pov- erty , and to tell a hundred stories of his own pertness and 15 folly , and ...
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... equally abject , their aspirings were not equally high , nor their sense of insult equally acute . To lodge in a garret up four pair of 30 stairs , to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place , to trans- late ten hours a day for the ...
... equally abject , their aspirings were not equally high , nor their sense of insult equally acute . To lodge in a garret up four pair of 30 stairs , to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place , to trans- late ten hours a day for the ...
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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.