The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Том 31821 |
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... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr. Garrick , whom I made happy with Johnson's praise of his prologues ; and I suppose , in gratitude to him , he took up one of ...
... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr. Garrick , whom I made happy with Johnson's praise of his prologues ; and I suppose , in gratitude to him , he took up one of ...
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... wonderfully free from that nationality : but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe - black in London . " He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggeration ; repeating , with pauses and half - whistlings ...
... wonderfully free from that nationality : but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe - black in London . " He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggeration ; repeating , with pauses and half - whistlings ...
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... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversa- tion and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however ...
... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversa- tion and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however ...
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... wonderful when a calculation is made , how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work ...
... wonderful when a calculation is made , how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work ...
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... wonderful how little mind she had . Sir , she had never read the tragedy of Macbeth all through . She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken , than a shoemaker thinks of the skin , out of which the piece of leather ...
... wonderful how little mind she had . Sir , she had never read the tragedy of Macbeth all through . She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken , than a shoemaker thinks of the skin , out of which the piece of leather ...
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Страница 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Страница 258 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — ' BOSWELL. 'Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you.' JOHNSON. 'What do you mean, sir ? What do you take me for ? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table ?
Страница 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Страница 237 - It having been mentioned, I know not with what truth, that a certain female political writer, whose doctrines he disliked, had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge — JOHNSON : She is better employed at her toilet than using her pen. It is better she should be reddening her own cheeks, than blackening other people's characters.
Страница 173 - He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines: — ' Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round. Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Страница 358 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?'" BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, Sir ?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest...
Страница 226 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.
Страница 290 - 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 7 - He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.
Страница 353 - The horror of death, which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson, appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, " he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.