Boswell's Life of JohnsonC. Scribner's sons, 1917 - 574 страници |
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... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avid- ity , and read a great part of the book . What he read dur- ing these two years he told me , was not works of mere amuse- ment , ' not voyages and travels , but ...
... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avid- ity , and read a great part of the book . What he read dur- ing these two years he told me , was not works of mere amuse- ment , ' not voyages and travels , but ...
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , " though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , " though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
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... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
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... learning and taste , as for his other eminent qualities ; and no man was more prompt , active , and generous , in encouraging merit . I have heard Johnson gratefully acknowledge , in his presence , the kind and effectual support which ...
... learning and taste , as for his other eminent qualities ; and no man was more prompt , active , and generous , in encouraging merit . I have heard Johnson gratefully acknowledge , in his presence , the kind and effectual support which ...
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Страница 64 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;*— * that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Страница 127 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Страница 65 - 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,
Страница 190 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life ? " JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all
Страница 230 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Страница 119 - Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
Страница 64 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
Страница 64 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "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...
Страница 107 - ... him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Страница 339 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.