Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Band 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... perhaps in more , is very far from having spent its force . Young men are still far too often found in our Universities who think that one proof of their originality is a contempt of authors whose writings they have never read . Books ...
... perhaps in more , is very far from having spent its force . Young men are still far too often found in our Universities who think that one proof of their originality is a contempt of authors whose writings they have never read . Books ...
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... perhaps on other subjects . Their composition , would , however , have delayed publication more than seemed advisable , and their length might have rendered the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more See post , ii . 39 , 486-8 , 504 ...
... perhaps on other subjects . Their composition , would , however , have delayed publication more than seemed advisable , and their length might have rendered the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more See post , ii . 39 , 486-8 , 504 ...
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... describes him as ' he who used to be looked upon as perhaps the most happy man in the world ! ' Letters of Boswell , p . 344 . I. - I attention 2 Dedication . attention by a person of the first DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
... describes him as ' he who used to be looked upon as perhaps the most happy man in the world ! ' Letters of Boswell , p . 344 . I. - I attention 2 Dedication . attention by a person of the first DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
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... perhaps quotes from memory the following passage in Goldsmith's Life of Nash : - ' The doctor was one day conversing with Locke and two or three more of his learned and intimate com- panions with that freedom , gaiety , and cheerfulness ...
... perhaps quotes from memory the following passage in Goldsmith's Life of Nash : - ' The doctor was one day conversing with Locke and two or three more of his learned and intimate com- panions with that freedom , gaiety , and cheerfulness ...
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... perhaps he will devise something extraor- dinary . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 400. ' Dr. Johnson's history , ' wrote Horace Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four ...
... perhaps he will devise something extraor- dinary . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 400. ' Dr. Johnson's history , ' wrote Horace Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four ...
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Seite 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 365 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Seite 304 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Seite 304 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Seite 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Seite 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Seite 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.