The Essays of Samuel JohnsonW. Scott, Limited, 1888 - 346 страници |
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... genius is proverbial , and when John- son's battle for bread at the point of the pen was but beginning , he complicated matters by marrying , on the 9th of July 1735 , Mrs. Elizabeth Porter , the buxom and mature widow of a Birmingham ...
... genius is proverbial , and when John- son's battle for bread at the point of the pen was but beginning , he complicated matters by marrying , on the 9th of July 1735 , Mrs. Elizabeth Porter , the buxom and mature widow of a Birmingham ...
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... genius . In Johnson's estimate of the unprincipled poet's career , justice and mercy are admirably blended ; and if the warmth of the friend tempers the severity of the moralist , commiseration of Savage in his suffering and distress is ...
... genius . In Johnson's estimate of the unprincipled poet's career , justice and mercy are admirably blended ; and if the warmth of the friend tempers the severity of the moralist , commiseration of Savage in his suffering and distress is ...
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... genius of Dr. Johnson , published in 1792 , hints that the true explana- tion of the pompous and pedantic terms which occur all too freely in the Rambler is to be found in the fact that he was absorbed at the time in the dictionary ...
... genius of Dr. Johnson , published in 1792 , hints that the true explana- tion of the pompous and pedantic terms which occur all too freely in the Rambler is to be found in the fact that he was absorbed at the time in the dictionary ...
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... genius , and Edmund Burke , eloquent , stately , impassioned - the greatest thinker , in the judgment of Buckle , who ever devoted himself to English politics , Bacon alone excepted , and a man who took a wide and philosophic survey of ...
... genius , and Edmund Burke , eloquent , stately , impassioned - the greatest thinker , in the judgment of Buckle , who ever devoted himself to English politics , Bacon alone excepted , and a man who took a wide and philosophic survey of ...
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... homage to valiant and generous natures in which virtue and genius blend in noble union , " deep in the common heart , " the power of Samuel Johnson will survive . THE RAMBLER . THE RAMBLER . 1750-1752 . [ BOSWELL XXX INTRODUCTION .
... homage to valiant and generous natures in which virtue and genius blend in noble union , " deep in the common heart , " the power of Samuel Johnson will survive . THE RAMBLER . THE RAMBLER . 1750-1752 . [ BOSWELL XXX INTRODUCTION .
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Страница xvi - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Страница 309 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Страница 29 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Страница 79 - For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Страница 77 - LL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of •** others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Страница 192 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we ^ are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Страница 335 - TALES AND ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH INTROduction, by Ernest Rhys. 42 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys. 43 POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke. 44 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. 45 THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY OLIVER Wendell Holmes. 46 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST- TABLE.
Страница 80 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Страница 5 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Страница 157 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.