The Life of Samuel Johnson, Том 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 |
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... talked a great deal of such nonsense . suffered him ; but I will not suffer you . " BOSWELL . " But , Sir , does not Rousseau talk such nonsense ? " JOHNSON . " True , Sir ; but Rousseau knows he is talking nonsense , and laughs at the ...
... talked a great deal of such nonsense . suffered him ; but I will not suffer you . " BOSWELL . " But , Sir , does not Rousseau talk such nonsense ? " JOHNSON . " True , Sir ; but Rousseau knows he is talking nonsense , and laughs at the ...
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... talked in high terms . " Sir , " said he , " what is all this rout about the Corsicans ? They have been at war with the Genoese for upwards of twenty years , and have never yet taken their fortified towns . They might have battered down ...
... talked in high terms . " Sir , " said he , " what is all this rout about the Corsicans ? They have been at war with the Genoese for upwards of twenty years , and have never yet taken their fortified towns . They might have battered down ...
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... talked of languages being formed on the par- ticular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we cannot know the language . We may know the direct signification of single words ; but by these no beauty of expression ...
... talked of languages being formed on the par- ticular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we cannot know the language . We may know the direct signification of single words ; but by these no beauty of expression ...
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... talked of his meditating upon the awful hour of his own dissolution , and in what manner he should conduct himself upon that occasion : " I know not , " said he , " whether I should wish to have a friend by me , or have it all between ...
... talked of his meditating upon the awful hour of his own dissolution , and in what manner he should conduct himself upon that occasion : " I know not , " said he , " whether I should wish to have a friend by me , or have it all between ...
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... talked of the passage in Congreve with high commen- dation , and said , " Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault . Perhaps you may find seven ; but this does not refute my general assertion . If I come to an orchard ...
... talked of the passage in Congreve with high commen- dation , and said , " Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault . Perhaps you may find seven ; but this does not refute my general assertion . If I come to an orchard ...
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Страница 424 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Страница 188 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
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Страница 94 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Страница 261 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
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Страница 261 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Страница 145 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Страница 251 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.