The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, Band 71835 |
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Seite 82 - brought him into high reputation. LANGTON. " There is not one bad line in that poem; not one of Dryden's careless verses." SIR JOSHUA. " I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language." LANGTON. " Why were you glad ? You surely had no doubt of this
Seite 97 - have jumped over the moon. Yet Garrick speaks to us" (smiling). BOSWELL. " And Garrick is a very good man, a charitable man." JOHNSON. " Sir, a liberal man. He has given away more money than any man in England. There may be a little vanity mixed: but he has shown, that money is not his first
Seite 17 - Or, starting from your half-year's sleep From Hecla view the thawing deep: Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble waste survey." observing, " This, Sir, is very noble." In the evening our gentleman-farmer, and two others, entertained themselves and the company
Seite 5 - But the Christian revelation is not proved by the miracles alone, but as connected with prophecies, and with the doctrines in confirmation of which the miracles were wrought." He repeated his observation, that the differences among Christians are really of no consequence. " For instance," said he,
Seite 118 - Chap. LXXII. — Concerning Snakes. " There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island." At dinner we talked of another mode in the newspapers of giving modern characters in sentences from the classics, and of the passage — " Parcus deorum cultor, et infrequens, Insanientis dum sapientiee Consultus erro, nunc retrorsum Vela dare, atque iterare cursus Cogor relictos,
Seite 345 - life, with more strength of body and greater vigour of mind than I think is common at that age." But still he complains of sleepless nights and idle days, and forgetfulness, or neglect of resolutions. He thus pathetically expresses himself: •— " Surely I shall not spend my whole life with my own total disapprobation.
Seite 368 - is the most unfit to go out upon such an inquiry; for he is utterly ignorant of such arts as we already possess, and consequently could not know what would be accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding
Seite 376 - that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.' "
Seite 115 - to learn, and very able to teach; a man, out of whose company I never go without having learned something. It is sure that he vexes me sometimes, but I am afraid it is by making me feel my own ignorance. So much extension of mind, and so much minute accuracy of
Seite 247 - London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where economy can be so well practised as in London : more can be had here for the money, even by ladies,