Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, Том 21807 |
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... remarked , was a happy gift of nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so ; a man has from nature a certain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind I do not ...
... remarked , was a happy gift of nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so ; a man has from nature a certain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind I do not ...
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... remark- ing , that " Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him . To some men it is given on condition of not taking liberties which other men may take without much harm . One may drink wine , and be nothing ...
... remark- ing , that " Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him . To some men it is given on condition of not taking liberties which other men may take without much harm . One may drink wine , and be nothing ...
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... remarks : " I was struck with the justice of this observation . To be with those of whom a person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and com . poses an uneasy tumult of spirits , and consoles him with the ...
... remarks : " I was struck with the justice of this observation . To be with those of whom a person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and com . poses an uneasy tumult of spirits , and consoles him with the ...
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... remark made by General Paoli : That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something else , which keeps death out of their ...
... remark made by General Paoli : That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something else , which keeps death out of their ...
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... remark on Di- vines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a death- bed , to make it lie favourably , is not well- founded . While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm conference by themselves in a garden , at a pret- ty late hour , one ...
... remark on Di- vines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a death- bed , to make it lie favourably , is not well- founded . While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm conference by themselves in a garden , at a pret- ty late hour , one ...
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Страница 50 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Страница 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Страница 143 - The subject having been introduced by Dr Fordyce, Dr Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems ? Johnson replied, "Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.
Страница 216 - I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's History is better than the verbiage of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." BOSWELL. " Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration — such painting? " JOHNSON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece:...
Страница 194 - JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) ' Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits.
Страница 216 - ... 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 it out.
Страница 202 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him ; but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, 'throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.
Страница 180 - He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way to the left. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.
Страница 11 - A physician, who has practised long in a great city, may be excused if he retires to a small town, and takes less practice. Now, Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings, that the practice of a physician, retired to a small town, does to his practice in a great city.
Страница 200 - He has a singular talent of exhibiting character." JOHNSON. " Sir, it is not a talent ; it is a vice ; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers ; it is farce which exhibits individuals.