The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Հատոր 21831 |
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Արդյունքներ 53–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... occasion on which one would have expected to hear of " loftiness of mind : " a dedicator in his own person may be sincere , but he who writes a dedication for another cannot be so , and is moreover accessary to a public deception ; and ...
... occasion on which one would have expected to hear of " loftiness of mind : " a dedicator in his own person may be sincere , but he who writes a dedication for another cannot be so , and is moreover accessary to a public deception ; and ...
Էջ 32
... occasion of this correspondence between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Hervey was thus related to me by Mr. Beauclerk . " Tom Hervey had a great liking for Johnson , and in his will had left him a legacy of fifty pounds . One day he said to me ...
... occasion of this correspondence between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Hervey was thus related to me by Mr. Beauclerk . " Tom Hervey had a great liking for Johnson , and in his will had left him a legacy of fifty pounds . One day he said to me ...
Էջ 54
... occasion , seems to have expressed a great contempt for Dr. Robertson's works very unjustly indeed ; but , however Mr. Boswell might lament Johnson's prejudice , he was not justified in thus repeatedly misstating the fact . See ante , p ...
... occasion , seems to have expressed a great contempt for Dr. Robertson's works very unjustly indeed ; but , however Mr. Boswell might lament Johnson's prejudice , he was not justified in thus repeatedly misstating the fact . See ante , p ...
Էջ 60
... occasion ; the slaves of power , and the solicitors of favour , were driven hither from the remotest corners of the kingdom , but judex honestum prætulit utili . The virtue of Oxford has once more prevailed . " The death of Sir Walter ...
... occasion ; the slaves of power , and the solicitors of favour , were driven hither from the remotest corners of the kingdom , but judex honestum prætulit utili . The virtue of Oxford has once more prevailed . " The death of Sir Walter ...
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... occasion he had very little opportunity of hearing them talk , for with an excess of prudence , for which Johnson afterwards found fault with them , they hardly opened their lips , and that only to say something which they were certain ...
... occasion he had very little opportunity of hearing them talk , for with an excess of prudence , for which Johnson afterwards found fault with them , they hardly opened their lips , and that only to say something which they were certain ...
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Էջ 126 - 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.
Էջ 257 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Էջ 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Էջ 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Էջ 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Էջ 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Էջ 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Էջ 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Էջ 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Էջ 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.