Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet which he inserted , mentions Luke as a person well known , and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly ; while those of more In ...
... whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet which he inserted , mentions Luke as a person well known , and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly ; while those of more In ...
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... whole is , that it is not from the value or worth of the object which any person pur- sues that we can determine his en- joyment ; but merely from the passion with which he pursues it , and the success which he meets with in his pursuit ...
... whole is , that it is not from the value or worth of the object which any person pur- sues that we can determine his en- joyment ; but merely from the passion with which he pursues it , and the success which he meets with in his pursuit ...
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... whole empire , which he labours to improve and extend . ' Barry's Works , i . 42 . 2 It was of these speeches that Macaulay wrote : -The House of Commons heard Pitt for the last time , and Burke for the first time , and was in doubt to ...
... whole empire , which he labours to improve and extend . ' Barry's Works , i . 42 . 2 It was of these speeches that Macaulay wrote : -The House of Commons heard Pitt for the last time , and Burke for the first time , and was in doubt to ...
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... whole income : for he had always a sum of money lying by him for any extraordinary expences that might arise . Some money he put into the stocks ; at his death , the sum he had there amounted to one hundred and fifty pounds . He ...
... whole income : for he had always a sum of money lying by him for any extraordinary expences that might arise . Some money he put into the stocks ; at his death , the sum he had there amounted to one hundred and fifty pounds . He ...
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... whole of the same impression as the first edition of the Life of Johnson . ' After Michaelmas , 1766. See ante , ii . 25 . * See post , May , 31 , 1769 , note . Writing to Langton , on May 10 , of the year before he had said , ' I read ...
... whole of the same impression as the first edition of the Life of Johnson . ' After Michaelmas , 1766. See ante , ii . 25 . * See post , May , 31 , 1769 , note . Writing to Langton , on May 10 , of the year before he had said , ' I read ...
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Стр. 344 - 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. 35 - When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, Sir. When the king had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my sovereign.
Стр. 366 - 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. 5 - 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. 166 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell2 is poor ; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Стр. 319 - 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. 86 - 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. 42 - Prologue to his play, with the hopes of which he had been flattered; but it was strongly suspected that he was fretting with chagrin and envy at the singular honour Dr. Johnson had lately enjoyed. At length, the frankness and simplicity of his natural character prevailed. He sprung from the...
Стр. 327 - 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. 121 - 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.