Selections from the Works of Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1909 - 479 страници |
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... means of correcting some error of vision , or of helping to find life in that which has seemed dead . The introduction may appear at times too emphatic and opinionated , or too condensed and barren of illus- tration . But opinion often ...
... means of correcting some error of vision , or of helping to find life in that which has seemed dead . The introduction may appear at times too emphatic and opinionated , or too condensed and barren of illus- tration . But opinion often ...
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... mean to read Boswell now until the day I die.'1 Sir Leslie Stephen said : ' I had the good fortune when a boy , to read what is to me , I must confess , the most purely delightful of all books— I mean Boswell's Life of Johnson . I read ...
... mean to read Boswell now until the day I die.'1 Sir Leslie Stephen said : ' I had the good fortune when a boy , to read what is to me , I must confess , the most purely delightful of all books— I mean Boswell's Life of Johnson . I read ...
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... mean nothing , and he who can make us hear them as Johnson could have done is not to be found . Only by the most practised and measured utter- ance of his numbers , with lively auricular imagination , can we begin to realize the ...
... mean nothing , and he who can make us hear them as Johnson could have done is not to be found . Only by the most practised and measured utter- ance of his numbers , with lively auricular imagination , can we begin to realize the ...
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... mean- ing is slight , and emotion is absent , the balance becomes absurdly disproportioned ; but where his words carry meaning and emotion enough to crush into confused ruin the syntax of an ordinary man , his balance upholds the weight ...
... mean- ing is slight , and emotion is absent , the balance becomes absurdly disproportioned ; but where his words carry meaning and emotion enough to crush into confused ruin the syntax of an ordinary man , his balance upholds the weight ...
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... means of doing good . Let us , therefore , stop , while to stop is in our power ; let us live as men who are sometime to grow old , and to whom it will be the most dreadful of all evils to count their past years by follies , and to be ...
... means of doing good . Let us , therefore , stop , while to stop is in our power ; let us live as men who are sometime to grow old , and to whom it will be the most dreadful of all evils to count their past years by follies , and to be ...
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Страница 26 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed, 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Страница 396 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Страница 27 - 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 ? 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 434 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Страница 471 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Страница 363 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 409 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Страница 27 - 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Страница 23 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Страница 58 - 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.