Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor JohnsonA. Boot, 1884 - Всего страниц: 319 |
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... thing as for neglecting to know it . He would ask a boy a question , and , if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a ...
... thing as for neglecting to know it . He would ask a boy a question , and , if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a ...
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... thing may be learned . ' Boswell introduced the topic , which is often ignorantly urged , that the universities of England are too rich ; so that learning does not flourish in them as it would do if those who teach had smaller salaries ...
... thing may be learned . ' Boswell introduced the topic , which is often ignorantly urged , that the universities of England are too rich ; so that learning does not flourish in them as it would do if those who teach had smaller salaries ...
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... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man who has enough without teaching will probably not teach , for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching will not exert himself ...
... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man who has enough without teaching will probably not teach , for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching will not exert himself ...
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... thing immediately good , from fear of remote evil ; from fear of its being abused . A man who has candles may sit up too late , which he would not do if he had not candles ; but nobody will deny that the art of making candles , by which ...
... thing immediately good , from fear of remote evil ; from fear of its being abused . A man who has candles may sit up too late , which he would not do if he had not candles ; but nobody will deny that the art of making candles , by which ...
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... thing useless , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture as to things useful is good ; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know , such as whether men went on all fours , is very idle ...
... thing useless , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture as to things useful is good ; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know , such as whether men went on all fours , is very idle ...
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Стр. 260 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Стр. 194 - 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!
Стр. 287 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Стр. 30 - 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.
Стр. 83 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Стр. 286 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Стр. 287 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Стр. 84 - They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
Стр. 16 - All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle...
Стр. 287 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...