Johnson: His Characteristics and AphorismsA. Gardner, 1884 - 173 страници |
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... mind , and has not till this day been expiated . My father had been in the habit of attending Uttoxeter market , and opening a stall there for the sale of his books . Confined by indisposition , he desired me that day to go and attend ...
... mind , and has not till this day been expiated . My father had been in the habit of attending Uttoxeter market , and opening a stall there for the sale of his books . Confined by indisposition , he desired me that day to go and attend ...
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... minds , ugliness itself is positively beautiful ? or that JOHN- SON might imagine that beauty was in the mind , and not in the object ? Poor Garrick did not Life . ix .
... minds , ugliness itself is positively beautiful ? or that JOHN- SON might imagine that beauty was in the mind , and not in the object ? Poor Garrick did not Life . ix .
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... mind , might chance to mislead it for ever . " No wonder that the learned Mrs. Montague said , " That were an angel to give the imprimatur , Dr. JOHNSON'S works were among the very few which would not be lessened by a line . " JOHNSON ...
... mind , might chance to mislead it for ever . " No wonder that the learned Mrs. Montague said , " That were an angel to give the imprimatur , Dr. JOHNSON'S works were among the very few which would not be lessened by a line . " JOHNSON ...
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... and once when he was in a placid frame of mind he was obliged to own to me that he had enjoyed happier days and had had more friends since that gloomy hour than before . " When JOHNSON had completed his great work , and was XX . Life .
... and once when he was in a placid frame of mind he was obliged to own to me that he had enjoyed happier days and had had more friends since that gloomy hour than before . " When JOHNSON had completed his great work , and was XX . Life .
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... mind distracted with anxieties , a body languishing with disease . " Who can read these words without deep emotion ? To a man thus circumstanced , pressed down so with the load of life , is it any wonder that he should not write in the ...
... mind distracted with anxieties , a body languishing with disease . " Who can read these words without deep emotion ? To a man thus circumstanced , pressed down so with the load of life , is it any wonder that he should not write in the ...
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Страница x - 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 clviii - 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 xi - 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 x - 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 54 - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
Страница viii - 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 xi - 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 21 - 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 clviii - 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.
Страница xi - 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.