The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 - Authors, English |
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... Things which grow wild here , must be cultivated with great care in Scotland . Pray now ( throwing himself back in his chair , and laughing ) , are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfec- tion ? " I boasted that we had the honour of ...
... Things which grow wild here , must be cultivated with great care in Scotland . Pray now ( throwing himself back in his chair , and laughing ) , are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfec- tion ? " I boasted that we had the honour of ...
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... things in this life , take death and futurity as objects on which to display it . " JOHNSON . " That is mighty fool- ish affectation . Fear is one of the passions of human nature , of which it is impossible to divest it . You remember ...
... things in this life , take death and futurity as objects on which to display it . " JOHNSON . " That is mighty fool- ish affectation . Fear is one of the passions of human nature , of which it is impossible to divest it . You remember ...
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... suspected man , ' By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen , Sir , ' was the lofty reply : ' I hope I see things from greater distance . ' " - Piozzi , he seemed then to enjoy , while the sage , EJAT . 60 . 17 GOLDSMITH .
... suspected man , ' By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen , Sir , ' was the lofty reply : ' I hope I see things from greater distance . ' " - Piozzi , he seemed then to enjoy , while the sage , EJAT . 60 . 17 GOLDSMITH .
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... things , though the versification was fine . He told us , with high satisfaction , the anecdote of Pope's inquiring who was the author of his " London , " and saying , he will be soon déterré . He observed , that in Dryden's poetry ...
... things , though the versification was fine . He told us , with high satisfaction , the anecdote of Pope's inquiring who was the author of his " London , " and saying , he will be soon déterré . He observed , that in Dryden's poetry ...
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... things in a new way . " MURPHY . " He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism , and wants to make it his own ; as if he had been for years anato mising the heart of man , and peeping into every cranny of it . " GOLDSMITH ...
... things in a new way . " MURPHY . " He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism , and wants to make it his own ; as if he had been for years anato mising the heart of man , and peeping into every cranny of it . " GOLDSMITH ...
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Page 424 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Page 188 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 75 - 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.
Page 94 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 261 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 50 - 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.
Page 387 - There is no arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Page 261 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Page 145 - Robertson would be crushed by his own weight, — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Page 251 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.