Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... observed there was then an opinion about town that Dr. Johnson wrote the whole poem for his friend , who was then in a manner an unknown writer . ' Tay- lor's Reynolds , ii . 458 . See also post , April 9 , 1778. For each line of The ...
... observed there was then an opinion about town that Dr. Johnson wrote the whole poem for his friend , who was then in a manner an unknown writer . ' Tay- lor's Reynolds , ii . 458 . See also post , April 9 , 1778. For each line of The ...
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... observed , nor is the observation absurd , that , excepting in experi- mental sciences which demand a costly apparatus and a dexterous hand , the many valuable treatises that have been published on every subject of learning may now ...
... observed , nor is the observation absurd , that , excepting in experi- mental sciences which demand a costly apparatus and a dexterous hand , the many valuable treatises that have been published on every subject of learning may now ...
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... observed , could not apply to all , for there must be some who have nobody worse than they are . JOHNSON . Why , to be sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think ...
... observed , could not apply to all , for there must be some who have nobody worse than they are . JOHNSON . Why , to be sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think ...
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... observed , ' The great diffi- culty is to know when you have made good ones . When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I have written them down , and ...
... observed , ' The great diffi- culty is to know when you have made good ones . When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I have written them down , and ...
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... observed the emis- sion of the electrical spark from a human body . The best lines are the following : — Now , hoary Sage , pursue thy happy flight , With swifter motion haste to purer light , Where Bacon waits with Newton and with ...
... observed the emis- sion of the electrical spark from a human body . The best lines are the following : — Now , hoary Sage , pursue thy happy flight , With swifter motion haste to purer light , Where Bacon waits with Newton and with ...
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Էջ 317 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Էջ 78 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the coppers.
Էջ 338 - 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.
Էջ 3 - 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.
Էջ 119 - 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.
Էջ 360 - 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.
Էջ 313 - 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.
Էջ 84 - 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.
Էջ 321 - 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.
Էջ 446 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...