The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2J. R. Anderson Company, 1889 - Authors, English |
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... thought so , Sir , if I had not heard you talk . " The General asked him what he thought of the spirit of infidelity which was so preva- lent . JOHNSON . " Sir , this gloom of infidelity , I hope , is only a transient cloud passing ...
... thought so , Sir , if I had not heard you talk . " The General asked him what he thought of the spirit of infidelity which was so preva- lent . JOHNSON . " Sir , this gloom of infidelity , I hope , is only a transient cloud passing ...
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... Joshua Reynolds thought that Boswell had no right to complain , as it were better to be alive than dead . Johnson said , " N , Sr , Boswell is in the right ; as - 1 while being a dunce now , when there 18 1769 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... Joshua Reynolds thought that Boswell had no right to complain , as it were better to be alive than dead . Johnson said , " N , Sr , Boswell is in the right ; as - 1 while being a dunce now , when there 18 1769 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... thought it worth while . And what merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , Sir , there is no real criticism in it : none show . ing the beauty of thought , as formed ...
... thought it worth while . And what merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , Sir , there is no real criticism in it : none show . ing the beauty of thought , as formed ...
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... thought at all . " BOSWELL . " But is not the fear of death natural to man ? " JOHNSON . " So much so , Sir , that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it . " He then , in a low and earnest tone , talked of his ...
... thought at all . " BOSWELL . " But is not the fear of death natural to man ? " JOHNSON . " So much so , Sir , that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it . " He then , in a low and earnest tone , talked of his ...
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... thought upon the subject . ” BOSWELL . " I suppose , Sir , he has thought superficially , and seized the first notions which occurred to his mind . " JOHNSON . " Why then , Sir , still he is like a dog , that snatches the piece next him ...
... thought upon the subject . ” BOSWELL . " I suppose , Sir , he has thought superficially , and seized the first notions which occurred to his mind . " JOHNSON . " Why then , Sir , still he is like a dog , that snatches the piece next him ...
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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.