Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 страници |
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... reference books constantly at his elbow . When we lay down the Essays we involuntarily ask ourselves , " Was there anything this man did not know ? " As a matter of fact Macaulay knew very little about philosophy , and his books contain ...
... reference books constantly at his elbow . When we lay down the Essays we involuntarily ask ourselves , " Was there anything this man did not know ? " As a matter of fact Macaulay knew very little about philosophy , and his books contain ...
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... references to his- tory and literature is given in the Explanatory Notes . Macaulay wrote primarily , not for school - boys , but for readers of mature culture ; and the average student in secondary schools , even after he has received ...
... references to his- tory and literature is given in the Explanatory Notes . Macaulay wrote primarily , not for school - boys , but for readers of mature culture ; and the average student in secondary schools , even after he has received ...
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... reference . This reading of the text with a view to grasping its sub- ject - matter should be done out of class , at a rate , according to circumstances , of from four to ten pages a lesson . During the recitation period the teacher ...
... reference . This reading of the text with a view to grasping its sub- ject - matter should be done out of class , at a rate , according to circumstances , of from four to ten pages a lesson . During the recitation period the teacher ...
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... reference to published criticisms , the pupils should be encouraged to form and express opinions of their own about either Johnson's character or Macaulay's style . Whether their opinions are right or wrong matters little ; the ...
... reference to published criticisms , the pupils should be encouraged to form and express opinions of their own about either Johnson's character or Macaulay's style . Whether their opinions are right or wrong matters little ; the ...
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... references , is one of the best starting points for a study of that interesting period in the history of English life and letters . Into that rich field the ' Life of Johnson " should be the gate . Though men- tioned last , this study ...
... references , is one of the best starting points for a study of that interesting period in the history of English life and letters . Into that rich field the ' Life of Johnson " should be the gate . Though men- tioned last , this study ...
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Страница 87 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Страница 83 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Страница 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Страница 51 - Johnson grown old, Johnson in the fulness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us than any other man in history. Everything about him, his coat, his wig, his figure, his face, his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, .the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...
Страница 74 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : "Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose, started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Страница 66 - But, Sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown." JOHNSON. "Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown? The crown has not power enough.
Страница 65 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Страница 77 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Страница 44 - The old philosopher is still among us in the brown coat with the metal buttons and the shirt which ought to be at wash, blinking, puffing, rolling his head, drumming with his fingers, tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in oceans. No human being who has been more than seventy years in the grave is so well known to us. And it is but just to say that our intimate acquaintance with what he would himself have called the anfractuosities of his intellect and of his temper serves only...
Страница 9 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him.