Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: With a Selection from His Essay on JohnsonGinn and Company, 1904 - 94 страници |
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... expression for a bore . He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society which has owed to him the greater part of its fame . He was always laying himself at the feet of some eminent man , and 20 begging to be spit ...
... expression for a bore . He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society which has owed to him the greater part of its fame . He was always laying himself at the feet of some eminent man , and 20 begging to be spit ...
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... expression of respect and admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it ...
... expression of respect and admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it ...
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... expression of contempt . 7. An ill - natured man Boswell certainly was not . Yet the malignity of the most maligant satirist could scarcely cut deeper than his thoughtless loquacity . Having himself no 10 sensibility to derision and ...
... expression of contempt . 7. An ill - natured man Boswell certainly was not . Yet the malignity of the most maligant satirist could scarcely cut deeper than his thoughtless loquacity . Having himself no 10 sensibility to derision and ...
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... expressions very similar into the mouth 30 of Rasselas . It is amusing to contrast these passages with the torrents of raving abuse which he poured forth against the Long Parliament and the American Congress . In one of the ...
... expressions very similar into the mouth 30 of Rasselas . It is amusing to contrast these passages with the torrents of raving abuse which he poured forth against the Long Parliament and the American Congress . In one of the ...
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... expression , and politeness to the manners . All this was over- 20 looked . An Athenian who did not improve his mind by read- 25 ing was , in Johnson's opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark , much such a person as ...
... expression , and politeness to the manners . All this was over- 20 looked . An Athenian who did not improve his mind by read- 25 ing was , in Johnson's opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark , much such a person as ...
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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.