Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor JohnsonA. Boot, 1884 - 319 страници |
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... attention to new works , mostly of the mushroom type , springing up in a night to disappear in a day . ” The size of the book , however , he did not omit to regard as an obstacle to its popular acceptance . This last consideration ...
... attention to new works , mostly of the mushroom type , springing up in a night to disappear in a day . ” The size of the book , however , he did not omit to regard as an obstacle to its popular acceptance . This last consideration ...
Страница xi
... attention . The mention of the Preface contributed by him to the Harleian Miscellany in the following year will serve to record the fact that , irritated by the insolence of " the most rapacious and brutal of booksellers , " he knocked ...
... attention . The mention of the Preface contributed by him to the Harleian Miscellany in the following year will serve to record the fact that , irritated by the insolence of " the most rapacious and brutal of booksellers , " he knocked ...
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... attention , so there is but half to be employed on what we read . I read Fielding's Amelia through , without stopping . * If a man begins to read in the middle of * Johnson appears to have been particularly pleased with the character of ...
... attention , so there is but half to be employed on what we read . I read Fielding's Amelia through , without stopping . * If a man begins to read in the middle of * Johnson appears to have been particularly pleased with the character of ...
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... attention is necessary for men to take care of themselves , and ward off immediate evils which press upon them - it is wonderful how much they do for others . As it is said of the greatest liar , that he tells more truth than falsehood ...
... attention is necessary for men to take care of themselves , and ward off immediate evils which press upon them - it is wonderful how much they do for others . As it is said of the greatest liar , that he tells more truth than falsehood ...
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... attention from the misery which they suffer : but when they grow very ill , pleasure is too weak for them , and they seek for pain . Employment , sir , and hard- ships , prevent melancholy . in all our army in I suppose America there ...
... attention from the misery which they suffer : but when they grow very ill , pleasure is too weak for them , and they seek for pain . Employment , sir , and hard- ships , prevent melancholy . in all our army in I suppose America there ...
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Страница 260 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Страница 194 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Страница 287 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Страница 30 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray that their understanding is not called in question.
Страница 83 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Страница 286 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Страница 287 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Страница 84 - They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
Страница 16 - All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle...
Страница 287 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...