The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Том 101835 |
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... excellent man more than thirty years . I thought it an honour to be so connected , and to this hour I reflect on his loss with regret : but regret , I know , has secret bribes , by which the judgment may be influenced , and partial ...
... excellent man more than thirty years . I thought it an honour to be so connected , and to this hour I reflect on his loss with regret : but regret , I know , has secret bribes , by which the judgment may be influenced , and partial ...
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... excellent man . Sir John had a root of bitterness that 66 put rancours in the vessel of his peace . " " Fielding , " he says , 66 was the inventor of a cant phrase , Goodness of heart , which means little more than the virtue of a horse ...
... excellent man . Sir John had a root of bitterness that 66 put rancours in the vessel of his peace . " " Fielding , " he says , 66 was the inventor of a cant phrase , Goodness of heart , which means little more than the virtue of a horse ...
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... excellent man . " Johnson was born a logician ; one of those to whom only books of logic are said to be of use . In conse- quence of his skill in that art , he loved argumentation . No man thought more profoundly , nor with such acute ...
... excellent man . " Johnson was born a logician ; one of those to whom only books of logic are said to be of use . In conse- quence of his skill in that art , he loved argumentation . No man thought more profoundly , nor with such acute ...
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... juxtaposition , the following admirable para- graph ; the conclusion of which is alike excellent for its imagery and sublimity : - " As the personages of Shakspeare act upon principles arising ( 1 ) Rasselas , chap . 43 . DRAKE . 93.
... juxtaposition , the following admirable para- graph ; the conclusion of which is alike excellent for its imagery and sublimity : - " As the personages of Shakspeare act upon principles arising ( 1 ) Rasselas , chap . 43 . DRAKE . 93.
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... plainness ; but which , though totally stripped of the decorations of art , pos- sesses a native dignity , approaching to that which we receive from our most excellent liturgy . PART XXXII . ANECDOTES , OPINIONS , AND REMARKS , DRAKE . 95.
... plainness ; but which , though totally stripped of the decorations of art , pos- sesses a native dignity , approaching to that which we receive from our most excellent liturgy . PART XXXII . ANECDOTES , OPINIONS , AND REMARKS , DRAKE . 95.
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Страница 90 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Страница 149 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Страница 92 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Страница 94 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Страница 71 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Страница 179 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Страница 79 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Страница 231 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Страница 77 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Страница 64 - Magazine, with a professed intention to point out the pieces which he had written in that collection. The books lay on the table, with many leaves doubled down, and in particular those which contained his share in the Parliamentary Debates.