The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Harper & Bros., 1846 |
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... thought the law would allow in making frequent quotations from the preceding publica- tions ; but as to all the rest , which he did not venture to appropriate to his own use , the grapes were sour — and he took every opportunity of ...
... thought the law would allow in making frequent quotations from the preceding publica- tions ; but as to all the rest , which he did not venture to appropriate to his own use , the grapes were sour — and he took every opportunity of ...
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... thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings ; and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . It was a strange and fortunate ...
... thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings ; and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . It was a strange and fortunate ...
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... thought his diseases derived from her family 2. She visited him every day , and used to go different ways , that her assiduity might not expose her to ridicule , and often left her fan or glove be- hind , that she might have a pretence ...
... thought his diseases derived from her family 2. She visited him every day , and used to go different ways , that her assiduity might not expose her to ridicule , and often left her fan or glove be- hind , that she might have a pretence ...
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... thought : " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly Virgilian . He ...
... thought : " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly Virgilian . He ...
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... thought exercise and change of place alleviated this disease , which he inherited from him . It seems that he did not , in his own mind , connect this disease with the scrof- ula , which he derived , as he thought , from his mother , or ...
... thought exercise and change of place alleviated this disease , which he inherited from him . It seems that he did not , in his own mind , connect this disease with the scrof- ula , which he derived , as he thought , from his mother , or ...
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Страница 434 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
Страница 109 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, 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, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Страница 109 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Страница 109 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Страница 123 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Страница 109 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Страница 174 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression 'come from Scotland...
Страница 296 - The misfortune of Goldsmith in conversation is this : he goes on without knowing how he is to get off. His genius is great, but his knowledge is small. As they say of a generous man, it is a pity he is not rich, we may say of Goldsmith, it is a pity he is not knowing. He would not keep his knowledge to himself.
Страница 189 - I believe, sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Страница 310 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...