Johnson: His Characteristics and AphorismsA. Gardner, 1884 - 173 страници |
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... mean authority , said that a certain speech of Mr. Pitt's was the finest he had ever read ; better than anything in Demosthenes . JOHNSON , who was present , in his own blunt way said , " Sir , I wrote that speech in a garret . " When ...
... mean authority , said that a certain speech of Mr. Pitt's was the finest he had ever read ; better than anything in Demosthenes . JOHNSON , who was present , in his own blunt way said , " Sir , I wrote that speech in a garret . " When ...
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... means of getting him employment and good wages , scarcely as anything more . We reckon it a striking fact in ... mean , however wise or ignorant , was yet able to despise . " It must surely have escaped the remem- brance of Carlyle ...
... means of getting him employment and good wages , scarcely as anything more . We reckon it a striking fact in ... mean , however wise or ignorant , was yet able to despise . " It must surely have escaped the remem- brance of Carlyle ...
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... mean authority in literature : " The publication of the ' Rambler , " he says , " produced a very rapid revo- lution in the tone of English composition , -an ele- vation and dignity , a harmony and energy , a pre- cision and force of ...
... mean authority in literature : " The publication of the ' Rambler , " he says , " produced a very rapid revo- lution in the tone of English composition , -an ele- vation and dignity , a harmony and energy , a pre- cision and force of ...
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... periodical , and the subscriptions for the new edition of Shakespeare , being the only means of his support for two or three years . C Nichols related the following story regarding the subscription list to Life . xxxiii .
... periodical , and the subscriptions for the new edition of Shakespeare , being the only means of his support for two or three years . C Nichols related the following story regarding the subscription list to Life . xxxiii .
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... means of procuring respect . " Yet he could be a critic of dress when in the humour . To Mrs. Thrale , one day speaking of dress , “ Learn , ” he said , " that there is propriety or impropriety in everything how slight however , and get ...
... means of procuring respect . " Yet he could be a critic of dress when in the humour . To Mrs. Thrale , one day speaking of dress , “ Learn , ” he said , " that there is propriety or impropriety in everything how slight however , and get ...
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Страница xxii - 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 xxiii - 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Страница 14 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Страница xxii - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Страница xx - 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.
Страница xxiii - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Страница 159 - Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Страница 45 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod.* " I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superioritv, you lay...
Страница xxiii - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Страница 14 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.