Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 страници |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 22.
Страница 6
... perform them . Works , vi . 275 . Ambulatory Students : TOM RESTLESS has long had a mind to be a man of knowledge , but he does not care to spend much time among authors ; for he is of opinion that few books deserve the labour of ...
... perform them . Works , vi . 275 . Ambulatory Students : TOM RESTLESS has long had a mind to be a man of knowledge , but he does not care to spend much time among authors ; for he is of opinion that few books deserve the labour of ...
Страница 68
... perform if you diligently preserve the memory of her life and of her death : a life , so far as I can learn , useful , wise , and innocent ; and a death resigned , peaceful , and holy . I cannot forbear to mention that neither reason ...
... perform if you diligently preserve the memory of her life and of her death : a life , so far as I can learn , useful , wise , and innocent ; and a death resigned , peaceful , and holy . I cannot forbear to mention that neither reason ...
Страница 81
... perform- ances they defraud them of but little time . Quid enim ? Concurritur - hora Momento cita mors venit , aut victoria læta . The battle join , and in a moment's flight , HORACE1 . Death , or a joyful conquest , ends the fight ...
... perform- ances they defraud them of but little time . Quid enim ? Concurritur - hora Momento cita mors venit , aut victoria læta . The battle join , and in a moment's flight , HORACE1 . Death , or a joyful conquest , ends the fight ...
Страница 86
... performed . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 407 . HE that supports an infant enables him to live here , but he that educates him assists him in his passage to a happier state and prevents that wickedness which is , if not the necessary ...
... performed . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 407 . HE that supports an infant enables him to live here , but he that educates him assists him in his passage to a happier state and prevents that wickedness which is , if not the necessary ...
Страница 92
... performed , whatever be the diligence or ability of the writer ; for the greater part of mankind have no character at all , have little that distinguishes them from others equally good or bad , and therefore nothing can be said of them ...
... performed , whatever be the diligence or ability of the writer ; for the greater part of mankind have no character at all , have little that distinguishes them from others equally good or bad , and therefore nothing can be said of them ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
Book BOSWELL Boswell's C. S. Jerram character contempt Crown 8vo death delight Demy 8vo desire Dictionary dreadful Edidit endeavour English Notes evil fear feel Fourth Edition George Saintsbury Glossary Grammar Greek happiness Henry Sweet History honour hope human Idler Introduction and Notes Isaac Bayley Balfour James Legge labour Latin learning live LL.D M.A. 2 vols M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition M.A. Third Edition mankind Max Müller Medium 8vo mind misery nature never Novum Testamentum Graece once opinion Oxford pain Paper covers passions perhaps Piozzi Letters Piozzi's Anecdotes pleased pleasure praise Rambler Rasselas reason Revised Robinson Ellis Royal 8vo Samuel Johnson Schools Selections Small 4to stiff covers talk tell Text things thought tion Translated truth University vanity viii virtue W. W. Skeat Wisdom of Samuel wish Wit and Wisdom write
Популярни откъси
Страница 34 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, 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 34 - 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 133 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Страница 33 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Страница 233 - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
Страница 21 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; 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...
Страница 153 - 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 132 - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
Страница 261 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Страница 96 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...