The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, Հատոր 1Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833 - 597 էջ |
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Էջ 159
... Boswell could be mean enough to put up with his vulgar arrogance . We listen with patience so long as the bard was disparaging his brother ; but when the min- now of literature had the audacity to assail the Triton of erudition , to use ...
... Boswell could be mean enough to put up with his vulgar arrogance . We listen with patience so long as the bard was disparaging his brother ; but when the min- now of literature had the audacity to assail the Triton of erudition , to use ...
Էջ 160
... Boswell tells us , 66 was natu- rally well formed , till he unfortunately became afflicted with scrofula , which disfigured his features , and so injured his visual nerves , that he completely lost the sight of one of his eyes . " Miss ...
... Boswell tells us , 66 was natu- rally well formed , till he unfortunately became afflicted with scrofula , which disfigured his features , and so injured his visual nerves , that he completely lost the sight of one of his eyes . " Miss ...
Էջ 165
... Boswell observes , when he was giving the world proofs of no ordinary vigour of understanding , he actually fancied himself insane , or in a state , as nearly as possible , approaching to it . Johnson's malady and Cowper's were ...
... Boswell observes , when he was giving the world proofs of no ordinary vigour of understanding , he actually fancied himself insane , or in a state , as nearly as possible , approaching to it . Johnson's malady and Cowper's were ...
Էջ 167
... death to be pronounced in his presence ; and Johnson was so agitated by having the subject spoken of in his hearing , that on one occasion he insulted Boswell for introducing the topic ; and ( 167 ) CHAPTER XVIII. ...
... death to be pronounced in his presence ; and Johnson was so agitated by having the subject spoken of in his hearing , that on one occasion he insulted Boswell for introducing the topic ; and ( 167 ) CHAPTER XVIII. ...
Էջ 168
... Boswell he never had a mo- ment in which death was not terrible to him ; and even at the age of sixty - nine he says he had made no approaches to a state in which he could look upon death without terror . At seventy - five , we find him ...
... Boswell he never had a mo- ment in which death was not terrible to him ; and even at the age of sixty - nine he says he had made no approaches to a state in which he could look upon death without terror . At seventy - five , we find him ...
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Էջ 79 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Էջ 166 - I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Էջ 177 - Every thing about his character and manners was forcible and violent ; there never was any moderation. Many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine : but when he did eat, it was voraciously ; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
Էջ 176 - I never k'new any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the. moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor. would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite, which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins • of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration...
Էջ 107 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Էջ 186 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Էջ 171 - ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with...
Էջ 87 - The first is their negligence: "Other men look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge: an husbandman will mend his ploughirons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer or huntsman will have an especial care of his hawks, hounds, horses, dogs, &c.
Էջ 171 - It is not more strange that there should be evil spirits than evil men: evil unembodied spirits, than evil embodied spirits. And as to storms, we know there are such things; and it is no worse that evil spirits raise them than that they rise.
Էջ 154 - Tis carnificina hominum, angor animi, as well saith Areteus, a plague of the soul, the cramp and convulsion of the soul, an epitome of hell ; and if there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart " For that deep torture may be call'd an hell, When more Is felt, than one hath power to tell.