Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Том 1Clarendon Press, 1888 - 323 страници |
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... observed by Tickell , that Addison employed wit on the side of virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason ...
... observed by Tickell , that Addison employed wit on the side of virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason ...
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... observation , that men's am- bition is generally proportioned to their capacity . Provi- dence seldom sends any into the world with an inclination to attempt great things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . Works , vi ...
... observation , that men's am- bition is generally proportioned to their capacity . Provi- dence seldom sends any into the world with an inclination to attempt great things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . Works , vi ...
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... observed , ' Sir , I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding . ' Boswell's Life of Johnson , iv . 313 . Army : I DOUBT not but I shall hear on this occasion of the service of our troops in the ...
... observed , ' Sir , I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding . ' Boswell's Life of Johnson , iv . 313 . Army : I DOUBT not but I shall hear on this occasion of the service of our troops in the ...
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... observed , that he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back , but he believed the gentleman was an attorney . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 126 . Audacity Audacity the last Refuge of Guilt : To revenge reasonable 12 ...
... observed , that he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back , but he believed the gentleman was an attorney . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 126 . Audacity Audacity the last Refuge of Guilt : To revenge reasonable 12 ...
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... observation daily shows that much . stress is not to be laid on hyperbolical accusations and pointed sentences , which even he that utters them desires to be applauded rather than credited . Addison can hardly be supposed to have meant ...
... observation daily shows that much . stress is not to be laid on hyperbolical accusations and pointed sentences , which even he that utters them desires to be applauded rather than credited . Addison can hardly be supposed to have meant ...
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Страница 162 - 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 182 - ... powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope.
Страница 143 - 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 263 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Страница 296 - 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 154 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Страница 252 - They are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat, — with the grossest sensuality. But, sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is so general a weakness.