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... literary characters ! " 66 As they were leaving the college , he said , Here I translated Pope's Messiah . Which do you think is the best line in it ? My own favourite is , • Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes . " B 2 Warton told ...
... literary characters ! " 66 As they were leaving the college , he said , Here I translated Pope's Messiah . Which do you think is the best line in it ? My own favourite is , • Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes . " B 2 Warton told ...
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... literary lady of large fortune was mentioned as one who did good to many , but by no means " by stealth ; " and instead of " blushing to find it fame , " acted evidently from vanity . JOHNSON . " I have seen no beings who do as much ...
... literary lady of large fortune was mentioned as one who did good to many , but by no means " by stealth ; " and instead of " blushing to find it fame , " acted evidently from vanity . JOHNSON . " I have seen no beings who do as much ...
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... literary fame of my country , I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's History of Scotland . But , to my sur- prise , he escaped . Sir , I love Robertson , and I won't talk of his book . ' It is but justice , both ...
... literary fame of my country , I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's History of Scotland . But , to my sur- prise , he escaped . Sir , I love Robertson , and I won't talk of his book . ' It is but justice , both ...
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... literary man . " No man , " said he , " who ever lived by literature , has lived more independently than I have done . " He more than once insisted on the duty of main- " Sir , I would no respect than of his 68 JOHNSONIANA .
... literary man . " No man , " said he , " who ever lived by literature , has lived more independently than I have done . " He more than once insisted on the duty of main- " Sir , I would no respect than of his 68 JOHNSONIANA .
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... literary lady of rank , the footman took the sugar in his fingers , and threw it into my coffee . I was going to put it aside ; but hearing it was made on purpose for me , I ev'n tasted Tom's fingers . The same lady would needs make tea ...
... literary lady of rank , the footman took the sugar in his fingers , and threw it into my coffee . I was going to put it aside ; but hearing it was made on purpose for me , I ev'n tasted Tom's fingers . The same lady would needs make tea ...
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Johnsoniana: From Boswell's Life of the Great Lexicographer and Moralist Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2020 |
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Сторінка 89 - 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.
Сторінка 40 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray that their understanding is not called in question.
Сторінка 7 - have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them leant, 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 superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief : you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Сторінка 6 - 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...
Сторінка 162 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Сторінка 104 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Сторінка 80 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high-road that leads him to England!
Сторінка 89 - ... Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there...
Сторінка 135 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Сторінка 38 - 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.