Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... English woman of Pen- rith , in Cumberland . When the Highlanders marched through that country in the year 1745 , she had married a soldier of the French picquets in the very midst of all the confusion and danger , and when she could ...
... English woman of Pen- rith , in Cumberland . When the Highlanders marched through that country in the year 1745 , she had married a soldier of the French picquets in the very midst of all the confusion and danger , and when she could ...
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... English verses in his mind , but never would write them down . ' Burke entered Parliament as member for Wendover borough on Jan. 14th , 1766. William Burke , writing to Barry the artist on the following March 23 , says : : - ' Ned's ...
... English verses in his mind , but never would write them down . ' Burke entered Parliament as member for Wendover borough on Jan. 14th , 1766. William Burke , writing to Barry the artist on the following March 23 , says : : - ' Ned's ...
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... English law ; but had never taken very great pains on the subject . BOSWELL . His father , Lord Auchinleck , told him one day , that it would cost him more trouble to hide his ignorance in these profes- sions than to show his knowledge ...
... English law ; but had never taken very great pains on the subject . BOSWELL . His father , Lord Auchinleck , told him one day , that it would cost him more trouble to hide his ignorance in these profes- sions than to show his knowledge ...
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... English ; both in their primary meaning expressing simply descent , but both made to stand κατ ' ἐξοχήν , for noble descent . Genus is thus used in Hor . lib . ii . Sat. v . 1. 8 , " Et genus et virtus , nisi cum re , vilior alga est ...
... English ; both in their primary meaning expressing simply descent , but both made to stand κατ ' ἐξοχήν , for noble descent . Genus is thus used in Hor . lib . ii . Sat. v . 1. 8 , " Et genus et virtus , nisi cum re , vilior alga est ...
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... English . ' This speculation may , perhaps , be thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the efficacy of ignorance has been long tried , and has not produced the ...
... English . ' This speculation may , perhaps , be thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the efficacy of ignorance has been long tried , and has not produced the ...
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Стр. 317 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Стр. 78 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the coppers.
Стр. 338 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Стр. 3 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Стр. 119 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Стр. 360 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Стр. 313 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Стр. 84 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Стр. 321 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Стр. 446 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...