Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with His Essay on JohnsonLongmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 110 страници |
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... young readers as well as to old , and it should be put within reach of all students of Macaulay's writings . The best short life of Macaulay is that by J. Cotter Morrison in the English Men of Letters Series . Mr. Morrison's book ...
... young readers as well as to old , and it should be put within reach of all students of Macaulay's writings . The best short life of Macaulay is that by J. Cotter Morrison in the English Men of Letters Series . Mr. Morrison's book ...
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... young Macaulay's one - sided inclination for literature can be traced throughout his career . Poetry , history , and fiction , read fast and chiefly for pleasure's sake , were very poor discipline for a mind in which fancy and ...
... young Macaulay's one - sided inclination for literature can be traced throughout his career . Poetry , history , and fiction , read fast and chiefly for pleasure's sake , were very poor discipline for a mind in which fancy and ...
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... young writer , and Macaulay was invited to write for it . His first contribu- tion was the celebrated " Essay on Milton . " 1 As criti- cism , this Essay has little value , for Macaulay was never a subtle or profound critic , capable of ...
... young writer , and Macaulay was invited to write for it . His first contribu- tion was the celebrated " Essay on Milton . " 1 As criti- cism , this Essay has little value , for Macaulay was never a subtle or profound critic , capable of ...
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... young man . Mr. Gladstone declares that " except the second Pitt and Lord Byron , no Englishman had ever won , at so early an age , such wide and honorable renown . After two years ' service as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy , he became ...
... young man . Mr. Gladstone declares that " except the second Pitt and Lord Byron , no Englishman had ever won , at so early an age , such wide and honorable renown . After two years ' service as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy , he became ...
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... young students , with whom all reading is more or less difficult , cannot well attend to more than one thing at a time . If they are required to spend their little store of mental energy on unfamiliar words , his- torical and literary ...
... young students , with whom all reading is more or less difficult , cannot well attend to more than one thing at a time . If they are required to spend their little store of mental energy on unfamiliar words , his- torical and literary ...
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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.